1He also said to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this man was accused to him of squandering his possessions.
2So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
3Then 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.
4I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management, they may welcome me into their homes.’
5And summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6He said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
7Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred kors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’
8And the master commended the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own generation than the sons of light.
9And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
10The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is unrighteous in a very little is also unrighteous in much.
11If, then, you have not been faithful with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
12And if you have not been faithful with what is another’s, who will give you what is your own?
13No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
14Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things, and they scoffed at him.
15And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
20And a certain poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21and longing to be fed from what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23And in Hades, lifting up his eyes while in torment, he saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.
24And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
25But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise the bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.’
27And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—
28for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
29But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
30But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’
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