Luke 17 To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come;

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ To his disciples he said, "It is inevitable that hindrances should come, but woe to the man by whom they come; ² it would be well for him to have a millstone hung round his neck and be flung into the sea, rather than prove a hindrance to one of these little ones! ³ Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him. ⁴ Even if he sins against you seven times in one day and turns to you seven times saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him." ⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!" ⁶ The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. ⁷ Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'? ⁸ Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'? ⁹ Does he thank the servant for doing his bidding? ¹⁰ Well, it is the same with you; when you have done all you are bidden, say, 'We are but servants; we have only done our duty.' " ¹¹ Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee. ¹² On entering one village he was met by ten lepers who stood at a distance ¹³ and lifted up their voice, saying, "Jesus, master, have pity on us." ¹⁴ Noticing them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went away they were cleansed. ¹⁵ Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice; ¹⁶ and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ So Jesus said, "Were all the ten not cleansed? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?" ¹⁹ And he said to him, "Get up and go, your faith has made you well." ²⁰ On being asked by the Pharisees when the Reign of God was coming, he answered them, "The Reign of God is not coming as you hope to catch sight of it; ²¹ no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst." ²² To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man. ²³ Men will say, 'See, here he is!' 'See, there he is!' but do not go out or run after them, ²⁴ for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day. ²⁵ But he must first endure great suffering and be rejected by the present generation. ²⁶ And just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man; ²⁷ they were eating, drinking, marrying and being married, till the day Noah entered the ark — then came the deluge and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Or just as it was in the days of Lot; they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting and building, ²⁹ but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ So will it be on the day the Son of man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back ³² (remember Lot's wife). ³³ Whoever tries to secure his life will lose it, and whoever loses it will preserve it. ³⁴ On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in the one bed, the one will be taken and the other left; ³⁵ two women will be grinding together, the one will be taken and the other left." ³⁶ -- ³⁷ They asked him, "Where, Lord?" And he said to them, "Where the body is lying, there the vultures will gather."