17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.
18 “Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery; and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19 “There was once a rich man who dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
20 There was also a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who used to be brought to the rich man's door,
21 hoping to eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
22 “The poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the feast in heaven. The rich man died and was buried,
23 and in Hades, where he was in great pain, he looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.