Bible verse
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Luke 16:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 16.
15 So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
16 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19 Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
20 And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
21 and longing to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
KJV
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
ASV
Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:
ERV
Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:
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