Luke 16

1He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this man was accused to him of squandering his possessions.”

2And after calling him, he said to him, “What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you are no longer able to manage.”

3Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.’

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

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

6He said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil.’ Then he said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

7Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’

8And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light are.

9And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you into the 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, then, you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

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

13No household servant can 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 cannot serve God and Mammon.

14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things and were ridiculing him.

15And he said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is detestable before God.”

16The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then on the kingdom of God is being proclaimed as good news, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fall.

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

19There was a certain rich man, and he used to dress in purple and fine linen, feasting splendidly every day.

20And a poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores,

21and longing to be fed from what fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.

22It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. And the rich man also died and was buried.

23And in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

24And he cried 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 agony in this flame.’

25But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.’

26And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those wanting to cross over from here to you cannot, nor can they cross over from there to us.

27Then he said, ‘I ask you then, father, that you send him to my father’s house,’

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

29But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from among the dead, they will change their thinking.’

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.’