1 He said also to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property.
2 He called him in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the accounts of your management, because you cannot be my manager any longer.'
3 The manager said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I would be ashamed to beg.
4 I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the management, people will welcome me into their homes.'
5 So he called in each one of his master's debtors. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
6 He said, 'A hundred baths of olive oil.' He told him, 'Here is your bill; sit down and write fifty, quickly.'
7 Then he asked another, 'And you, how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He told him, 'Here is your bill; write eighty.'
8 And the master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly; for the sons of this age are shrewder toward their own kind than the sons of light are.
9 And I say to you, use the mammon of unrighteousness to make friends for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
10 "Whoever is faithful in a very small matter is faithful in much as well, and whoever is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in much as well.
11 So if you have not proved faithful with unrighteous mammon, who will trust you with what is truly riches?
12 And if you have not proved faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?
13 "No household servant can serve two masters; either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
14 The Pharisees, who loved money, were listening to all this, and they sneered at him.
15 He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts. What people hold in high esteem is detestable in God's sight.
16 "The law and the prophets lasted until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and everyone forces his way into it.
17 Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for a single stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.
18 "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19 "There was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen, living in splendor and enjoying himself every day.
20 And a poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores,
21 longing to satisfy his hunger with the scraps that fell from the rich man's table; and even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
22 The time came when the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died too and was buried.
23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 He called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame.'
25 But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things; now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
26 Besides all this, a great gulf has been set in place between us and you, so that those who might wish to cross from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross from there to us.'
27 He said, 'Then I beg you, father, send him to my father's house,
28 for I have five brothers; let him warn them, so that they do not also end up in this place of torment.'
29 Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.'
30 He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'
31 He told him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"