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19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sump­tu­ously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Laz­arus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The poor man died and was car­ried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was bur­ied, 23 and in Hades, being in tor­ment, he lif­ted up his eyes and saw Abra­ham far off and Laz­arus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abra­ham, have mercy on me, and send Laz­arus to dip the end of his fin­ger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abra­ham said, ‘Child, remem­ber that you in your life­time received your good things, and Laz­arus in like man­ner bad things; but now he is com­for­ted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five broth­ers — so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of tor­ment.’ 29 But Abra­ham said, ‘They have Moses and the Proph­ets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abra­ham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Proph­ets, neither will they be con­vinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” (ESV)