Luke 16:1-12 ▼

1 Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this one was accused to him as wasting his possessions.

2 And having called him, he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, for you are not able to manage any longer.’

3 And the manager said in himself, ‘What shall I do, because my master is taking away the management from me? I have no strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

4 I have known what I shall do, so that when I shall have been removed from the management, they might receive me into their houses.’

5 And having summoned each one of the debtors of his master, he was saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my master?’

6 And he said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and having sat down quickly, write fifty.’

7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’

8 And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of the light in their own generation.

9 And I say to you?, make friends for yourselves by the mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they might receive you? into the eternal dwellings.

10 The one faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.

11 If, therefore, you? were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you? the true?

12 And if you? were not faithful in that which is of another, who will give to you? that which is your own?