Luke 16

¹ Now He said to His disciples also, "A certain man, who was rich, had an administrator, and this man was accused to him by an adversary as dissipating his possessions. ² And summoning him, he said to him, 'What is this I am hearing concerning you? Render an account of your administration, for you can no longer be administrator.' ³ Now the administrator said in himself, 'What shall I be doing, seeing that my lord will be wresting the administration from me? To dig I am not strong enough. ⁴ To be a mendicant I am ashamed. I knew what I shall be doing that whenever I may be deposed from the administration, they should be receiving me into their homes.' ⁵ And calling to him each one of the debtors paying usury to his lord, he said to the first, 'How much are you owing my lord?' ⁶ Now he said to him, 'A hundred baths of oil.' Now he said to him, 'Receive your bills, and, being seated, quickly write fifty.' ⁷ Thereupon to another he said, 'Now you, how much are you owing?' Now he said, 'A hundred cors of grain.' And he is saying to him, 'Receive your bills, and write eighty.' ⁸ And the lord applauds the unjust administrator, for he does prudently, for the sons of this eon are more prudent, above the sons of light in their own generation. ⁹ And am I saying to you, Make for yourselves friends with the mammon of injustice, that, whenever it may be defaulting, they should be receiving you into the eonian tabernacles ¹⁰ He who is faithful in the least is faithful in much also, and he who is unjust in the least is unjust in much also. ¹¹ If, then, you did not come to be faithful in the unjust mammon, who will be entrusting to you the true? ¹² And, if you did not come to be faithful in that which is an outsider's, who will be giving you that which is yours? ¹³ No domestic can be slaving for two lords, for either he will be hating one and loving the other, or he will be upholding one and despising the other. You can not slave for God and mammon." ¹⁴ Now the Pharisees also, inherently fond of money, heard all these things, and they scouted Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, "You are those who are justifying yourselves in the sight of men, yet God knows your hearts, for what is high among men is an abomination in the sight of God. ¹⁶ The law and the prophets are unto John; thenceforth, the evangel of the kingdom of God is being brought, and everyone is violently forcing into it, and the violent are snatching it. ¹⁷ Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass by than for one serif of the law to fall. ¹⁸ Everyone dismissing his wife and marrying another is committing adultery. And everyone marrying her who has been dismissed from a husband, is committing adultery. ¹⁹ Now a certain man was rich and he dressed in purple and cambric, daily making merry splendidly. ²⁰ Now there was a certain poor man named Lazarus, who had been cast at his portal, having ulcers, ²¹ and yearning to be satisfied from the scraps which are falling from the rich man's table. But the curs also, coming, licked his ulcers. ²² Now the poor man came to die and he is carried away by the messengers into Abraham's bosom. Now the rich man also died, and was entombed. ²³ And in the unseen, lifting up his eyes, existing in torments, he is seeing Abraham from afar, and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ And he shouting, said, 'Father Abraham, be merciful to me, and send Lazarus that he should be dipping the tip of his finger in water and cooling my tongue, for I am pained in this flame.' ²⁵ Now Abraham said, 'Child, be reminded that you got your good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise evil things. Yet now here he is being consoled, yet you are in pain. ²⁶ And in all this, between us and you a great chasm has been established, so that those wanting to cross hence to you may not be able, nor yet those thence may be ferrying to us.' ²⁷ Yet he said, 'I am asking you then, father, that you should be sending him into my father's house, ²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he may be certifying to them, lest they also may be coming into this place of torment.' ²⁹ Yet Abraham is saying to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them!' ³⁰ Yet he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone should be going to them from the dead, they will be repenting.' ³¹ Yet he said to him, 'If Moses and the prophets they are not hearing, neither will they be persuaded if someone should be rising from among the dead.'"