rsv - Luke:16:1-18

rsv@Luke:16:1 @ He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.

rsv@Luke:16:2 @ And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.'

rsv@Luke:16:3 @ And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

rsv@Luke:16:4 @ I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'

rsv@Luke:16:5 @ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my master?'

rsv@Luke:16:6 @ He said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

rsv@Luke:16:7 @ Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?' He said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.'

rsv@Luke:16:8 @ The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

rsv@Luke:16:9 @ And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.

rsv@Luke:16:10 @ "He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.

rsv@Luke:16:11 @ If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?

rsv@Luke:16:12 @ And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

rsv@Luke:16:13 @ No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

rsv@Luke:16:14 @ The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him.

rsv@Luke:16:15 @ But 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 in the sight of God.

rsv@Luke:16:16 @ "The law and the prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently.

rsv@Luke:16:17 @ But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.

rsv@Luke:16:18 @ "Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.