Luke 16

¹He was saying also to his disciples, 'There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this one was accused to him as squandering his possessions.'

²And calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer manage.'

³Then the manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, for my master is taking away the management from me? I do not have strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.'

⁴'I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they will receive me into their homes.'

⁵And calling each one of his master's debtors to him, he was saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

⁶And he said, 'One hundred baths of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bills and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

⁷Then to another he said, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'One hundred cors of wheat.' And he says to him, 'Take your bills and write eighty.'

⁸And the master praised the manager of unrighteousness, because he acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

⁹And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

¹⁰The one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.

¹¹If therefore in unrighteous wealth you have not been faithful, who will entrust to you the true riches?

¹²And if in what belongs to another you have not been faithful, who will give you what is your own?

¹³No household servant 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 despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.

¹⁴Now the Pharisees also, being lovers of money, were listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing 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 before God.'

¹⁶The law and the prophets were until John; from then the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone forces his way into it.

¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the law to fail.

¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

¹⁹Now there was a certain man, rich, and he used to clothe himself in purple and fine linen, making merry splendidly every day.

²⁰Now a certain poor man was there, named Lazarus, who had been laid at his gate, covered with sores.

²¹and longing to be satisfied from the things falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

²²It came to pass that the poor man died, and he was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham; and the rich man also died and was buried.

²³And in Hades, having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴And he himself 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, for I am in anguish in this flame.'

²⁵Then Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good things in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise the bad things. But now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.'

²⁶And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who desire to pass from here to you are not able, nor can those from there cross over to us.

²⁷Then he said, 'I beg you, then, father, that you would send him to the house of my father —

²⁸for I have five brothers — so that he may solemnly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

²⁹But Abraham says to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'

³⁰But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead should go to them, they will repent.'

³¹But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.'