Luke 16:19
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
KJV
Ἄνθρωπος δέ τις ἦν πλούσιος, καὶ ἐνεδιδύσκετο πορφύραν καὶ βύσσον εὐφραινόμενος καθ’ ἡμέραν λαμπρῶς.
Greek NT
Homo quidam erat dives, qui induebatur purpura et bysso, et epulabatur quotidie splendide.
Vulgate
Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:
ASV
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βύσσος
bussos
noun · 1×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εὐφραίνω
euphraino
verb · 14×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λαμπρῶς
lampros
adverb · 1×
πλούσιος
plousios
adjective · 28×
πορφύρα
porphura
noun · 4×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐνδιδύσκω
endidusko
verb · 2×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
Themes
Parable
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§1859Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
§2831But the presence of those who hunger because they lack bread opens up another profound meaning of this petition. the drama of hunger in the world calls Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility toward their brethren, both in their personal behavior and in their solidarity with the human family. This petition of the Lord's Prayer cannot be isolated from the parabl…
Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) · 2 passages
Souls can be recognised in the separate state, and are immortal although they once had a beginning. 1. The Lord has taught with very great fullness, that souls not only continue to exist, not by passing from body to body, but that they preserve the same form [in their separate state] as the body had to which they were adapted, and that they remember the deeds which they did in …
Proofs from the plain testimony of Moses, and of the other prophets, whose words are the words of Christ, that there is But one God, the founder of the world, whom Our Lord preached, and whom He called His Father. 1. Moses, therefore, making a recapitulation of the whole law, which he had received from the Creator (Demiurge), thus speaks in Deuteronomy: Give ear, O you heavens,…
Providence, then, is the care that God takes over existing things. And again: Providence is the will of God through which all existing things receive their fitting issue. But if Providence is God's will, according to true reasoning all things that come into being through Providence must necessarily be both most fair and most excellent, and such that they cannot be surpassed. Fo…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 25:2 — And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- Amos 6:4 — That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
- Col 3:2 — Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- Deut 32:29 — O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Eccl 5:13 — There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
- Esth 8:15 — And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced an
- Ezek 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezek 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezek 27:7 — Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
- Jas 1:11 — For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi
- Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
- Jas 5:1 — Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
- Jas 5:5 — Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
- Jude 1:12 — These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
- Lam 4:5 — They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
- Luke 1:53 — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- Luke 8:18 — Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
- Luke 15:13 — And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
- Luke 16:1 — And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
- Luke 17:27 — They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Luke 18:24 — And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
- Mark 8:36 — For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
- Matt 19:23 — Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
- Prov 1:32 — For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
- Prov 14:24 — The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
- Prov 19:10 — Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
- Prov 19:20 — Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
- Prov 22:2 — The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
- Prov 23:20 — Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- Prov 28:6 — Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
- Prov 31:24 — She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
- Ps 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Rev 18:16 — And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
- Rom 11:9 — And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: