Luke 16:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he said unto them,Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. ”

• Luke 16:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They derided him - The fact that they were “covetous” is here stated as the reason why they derided him, or, as it is literally, “they turned up the nose at him.” They contemned or despised the d...

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• Luke 16:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (4) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. (4) Our sins...

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• Luke 16:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Words to Pharisees. Luke 16:14 f. Lk. only. The verses seem introduced by Lk. to indicate that the preceding and succeeding parables were directed against Pharisees. They also illustrate his ant...

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• Luke 16:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  unto them . Addressed to the Pharisees. See the Structure "R" and "R", p. 1479. justify yourselves . See notes on Luke 15:7 ; Luke 15:29 . and Compare Luke 7:39 ; Matthew 23:25 . among . Gre...

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• Luke 16:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  15. It is you that justify yourselves before men. We see that Christ does not give way to their disdainful conduct, but constantly maintains the authority of his doctrine in opposition to th...

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• Luke 16:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Ye - justify yours...

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• Luke 16:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. And he sai...

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• Luke 16:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Unjust Steward. The Rich Man and Lazarus 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to il...

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• Luke 16:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye are they which justify yourselves before men. — The character described is portrayed afterwards more fully in the parable of Luke 18:9-14 . The word there used, “this man went down to his house...

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• Luke 16:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Look into the Future Luke 16:14-31 Here was a flagrant case of heartless indifference, amid luxuries of every kind, to the daily spectacle of abject need. Most of us have at least one Lazarus...

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• Luke 16:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whi...

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• Luke 16:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. (15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts;...

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• Luke 16:15 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  GODS WAYS AND MEN’S WAYS ‘And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided Him. And He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God k...

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• Luke 16:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he said unto them ,.... That is, Jesus said unto them, as the Syriac and Persic versions express it: "ye are they which justify yourselves before men": from the sins of injustice, unfaithfulness...

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• Luke 16:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. Ver. 15. For t...

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• Luke 16:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Pharisees, who were covetous Of a very worldly spirit; heard all these things Namely, concerning the true use of riches, and the impossibility of men's serving God and mammon at the same time...

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• Luke 16:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner,...

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• Luke 16:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Unjust Steward.       1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accu...

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• Luke 16:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  By justifying here is to be understood either an appearing before men as just, and strict observers of the law, or a predicating of themselves as just: You (saith our Saviour) make a fine show, and g...

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• Luke 16:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Replies to The Mockery of the Pharisees Directed At His Ideas About Wealth (16:14-18). The Pharisees had been listening in to his advice to His disciples and they derided Him. For in their e...

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• Luke 16:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 16:14-18 . In this section, the connection of which with the preceding and following parables is not at first sight apparent, we have evidently the heads of a discourse addres...

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• Luke 16:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 16:1 . A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods. After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's propert...

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• Luke 16:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Pharisees also, who were covetous Lovers of money Those “lovers of money” heard what things? As rulers of the people they heard the parable of the “unjust steward,” and their own doom as m...

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• Luke 16:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 16:1-42 The Lord ' s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, a...

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• Luke 16:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A lesson concerning covetousness.

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• Luke 16:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 29:17 ; 1 Corinthians 4:5 ; 1 Peter 3:4 ; 1 Peter 5:5 ; 1 Samuel 16:7 ; 2 Chronicles 6:30 ; Acts 1:18 ; Acts 15:8 ; Amos 5:21 ; Amos 5:22 ; Isaiah 1:10-14 ; James 2:21-25 ;...

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• Luke 16:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men — The sense of the whole passage is, that pride, wherewith you justify yourselves, feeds covetousness, derides the Gospel, Luke 1...

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