Walking through Lk

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-\v 12 Jesus also said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, as they may also invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
+\v 12 Jesus also said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, as they may also invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
 
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 \v 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
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 \v 25 Now large crowds were going with him, and he turned and said to them,
-\v 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters—yes, and his own life also—he cannot be my disciple.
+\v 26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
 \v 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
 
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 \v 31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take advice about whether he is able with ten thousand men to fight the other king who comes against him with twenty thousand men?
-\v 32 And if not, while the other army is still far away, he sends an ambassador and asks for conditions of peace.
+\v 32 And if not, while the other army is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for conditions of peace.
 \v 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not give up all that he has cannot be my disciple.
 
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 \v 12 and the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of the wealth that falls to me.' So he divided his property between them.
 
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-\v 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he owned and went to a country far away, and there he wasted his money, buying things he did not need, and wasting his money on wild living.
-\v 14 Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine spread throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
+\v 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he owned and went to a country far away, and there he wasted all his wealth by living recklessly.
+\v 14 Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine spread through that country, and he began to be in need.
 
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 \v 15 He went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
-\v 16 And he would gladly have eaten the bean pods that the pigs ate because no one gave him anything to eat.
+\v 16 And he would gladly have eaten the carob pods that the pigs ate, because no one gave him anything.
 
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 \v 17 But when the young son came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough food, and I am here, dying from hunger!

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-\v 1 Jesus also said to the disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this manager was squandering his possessions.
+\v 1 Jesus also said to the disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this manager was wasting his possessions.
 \v 2 So the rich man called him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
 
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 \v 5 Then the manager called for each one of his master's debtors, and he asked the first one, 'How much do you owe to my master?'
-\v 6 He said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'
-\v 7 Then the manager said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
+\v 6 He said, 'A hundred baths of olive oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'
+\v 7 Then the manager said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cor of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
 
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 \v 8 The master then commended the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own people than are the children of light.
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 \v 19 Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and was enjoying every day his great wealth.
 \v 20 A certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
-\v 21 and he yearned to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table—and besides that, the dogs came and licked his sores.
+\v 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
 
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 \v 22 It came about that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,

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 \v 13 He called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Conduct business until I come back.'
-\v 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation of ambassadors after him, saying, 'We will not have this man rule over us.'
+\v 14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man rule over us.'
 \v 15 It happened when he came back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded the servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what profit they had made by doing business.
 
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