Luke:16:1-15

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* And he said also to [his ] disciples , There was a certain rich man who had a steward , and he was accused to him as wasting his goods . * 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 having called to [him ] each one of the debtors of his own lord , he said to the first , How much owest thou to my lord ? * And he said , A hundred baths of oil . And he said to him , Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty . * Then he said to another , And thou , how much dost thou owe ? And he said , A hundred cors of wheat . And he says to him , Take thy writing and write eighty . * And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently . For the sons of this world are , for their own generation , more prudent than the sons of light . * And I say to you , Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness , that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles . * 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 to 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 mocked him . * And he said to them , Ye are they who justify themselves before men , but God knows your hearts ; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God .

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