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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Jesus was saying to the disciples, "A rich man had a servant manager who was accused of wasting his assets. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So he called for him and asked him, 'What's this I hear about you? You can't be my manager any longer. Now give me a report about your management!' |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Then the servant manager told himself, 'What should I do? My master is taking my position away from me. I'm not strong enough to plow, and I'm ashamed to beg. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I know what I'll do so that people will welcome me into their homes when I'm dismissed from my job.' |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"So he called for each of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The man replied, 'A hundred jars of olive oil.' The manager told him, 'Get your bill. Sit down quickly and write "50."' |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then he asked another debtor, 'How much do you owe?' The man replied, 'A hundred containers of wheat.' The manager told him, 'Get your bill and write "80."' |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The master praised the dishonest servant manager for being so clever, because worldly people are more clever than enlightened people in dealing with their own. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they will welcome you into eternal homes. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Whoever is faithful with very little is also faithful with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with very little is also dishonest with a lot. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So if you haven't been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And if you haven't been faithful with what belongs to foreigners, who will give you what is your own? |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"No servant can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth!" |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Now the Pharisees, who love money, had been listening to all this and began to ridicule Jesus. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"The Law and the Prophets remained until John. Since then, the good news about the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone entering it is under attack. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Any man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery." |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20A beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores, was brought to his gate. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He was always trying to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs used to come and lick his sores. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So he shouted, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.' |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"But Abraham said, 'My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.' |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"The rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house— |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28because I have five brothers—to warn them, so that they won't end up in this place of torture, too.' |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets. They should listen to them!' |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"But the rich man replied, 'No, father Abraham! But if someone from the dead went to them, they would repent.' |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31"Then Abraham told him, 'If your brothers do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if someone were to rise from the dead.'" |
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