And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused unto him as wasting his possessions.
And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? Give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord is taking the stewardship from me; I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
And he called each of his own lord’s debtors, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
Then he said to another, And thou, how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.
And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he had done prudently. For the sons of this age are in respect of their own generation more prudent than the sons of light.
And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that, when it fails, ye may be received into everlasting habitations.
He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who shall give unto you your own?
No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and sneered at him.
And he said unto them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are preached, and every one forceth his way into it.
And it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.
Every one who putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and every one that marrieth one put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
And [there was] a poor man named Lazarus, [who] lay at his gateway full of sores,
and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; nay, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass that the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried.
And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he, crying out, said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me: and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.
But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, likewise Lazarus evil things; but now here he is comforted, and thou art in suffering.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they [who desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.
And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldst send him to the house of my father,
for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify unto them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.
But Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go unto them they will repent.
And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.