1 And he also said to the disciples, “A certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions.
2 And he summoned him
3 And the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, because my master is taking away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
4 I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!’
5 And he summoned each one of his own master’s debtors
6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your promissory note and sit down quickly
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 promissory note and write eighty.’
8 And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.
9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
10 “The one who
11 If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true
12 And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own?
13 No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.”
14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these
15 And he said to them, “You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For
16 “The law and the prophets
17 But it is easier
18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from
19 “Now a certain man was rich, and dressed
20 And a certain poor man
21 and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came
22 Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to
23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes
24 And he called out
25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good
26 And in
27 So he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father’s house,
28 for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!’
29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.’
30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!’
31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.’ ”