1 Now He was also saying to the disciples, |There was a rich man who had a manager, and this [manager] was reported to him as squandering his possessions.
2 |And he called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
3 |The manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
4 I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'
5 |And he summoned each one of his master's debtors, and he [began] saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
6 |And he said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
7 |Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
8 |And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
9 |And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
10 |He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.
11 |Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [use of] unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true [riches] to you?
12 |And if you have not been faithful in [the use of] that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
13 |No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.|
14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.
15 And He said to them, |You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.
16 |The Law and the Prophets [were proclaimed] until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17 |But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
18 |Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
19 |Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
20 |And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21 and longing to be fed with the [crumbs] which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
