Luke 16

¹He also said to the disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had an estate manager, and this man was accused to him of wasting his possessions. ²So he called him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ ³The estate manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that 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, people will welcome me into their own homes.’

⁵Calling in 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 olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your contract, 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 contract and write eighty.’ ⁸And the master praised the unjust estate manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light.

⁹And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the Mammon of injustice, 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 unjust in a very little is also unjust in much. ¹¹If, then, you have not been faithful with the unjust Mammon, who will entrust to you what is true? ¹²And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? ¹³No household slave 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 silver, heard all these things and began to sneer at him. ¹⁵And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of people, but God knows your hearts; for what is highly valued among humans is an abomination in the sight of God. ¹⁶The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and everyone is pressing 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 the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

¹⁹There was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen, feasting in luxury every day. ²⁰And a certain poor man named Lazarus had been dumped at his gate, covered with sores, ²¹longing to be satisfied with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. ²²It happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham from far away with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴And he called out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.’ ²⁵But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise received bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. ²⁶And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’ ²⁷He 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 to this place of torment.’ ²⁹But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ ³⁰He 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 convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’"