Luke:16

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* He also said to His disciples : There was a certain rich man who had a steward , and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods . * So he called him and said to him , What is this I hear about you ? Give an account of your stewardship , for you can no longer be steward . * Then the steward said within himself , What shall I do ? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me . I am not able to dig ; I am ashamed to beg . * I know what to do , that when I am put out of the stewardship , they may receive me into their houses . * So he called every one of his master ’s debtors to him , and said to the first , How much do you owe my master ? * And he said , A hundred measures of oil . So he said to him , Take your bill , and sit down quickly and write fifty . * Then he said to another , And how much do you owe ? So he said , A hundred measures of wheat . And he said to him , Take your bill , and write eighty . * So the master commended the unjust steward because he had acted prudently . For the sons of this world are more prudent in their generation than the sons of light . * And I say to you , make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon , that when it fails , they may receive you into eternal dwellings . * He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much ; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much . * Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon , who will commit to your trust the true ? * And if you have not been faithful in what is another man ’s , who will give you what is your own ? * No servant is able to serve two masters ; for either he will hate the one and love the other , or else he will hold to the one and despise the other . It is not possible to serve God and mammon . * Now the Pharisees , who were lovers of money , also heard all these things , and they derided Him . * And He said to them , You are those who justify yourselves before men , but God knows your hearts . For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God . * The Law and the Prophets were until John . Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached , and everyone is pressing into it . * But it is easier for Heaven and earth to pass away than for one point of the Law to fail . * Whoever puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery ; and whoever marries her who is put away from her husband commits adultery . * There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day . * And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus , full of sores , who was laid at his gate , * desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man ’s table . Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores . * So it happened that the beggar died , and was carried by the angels into Abraham ’s bosom . The rich man also died and was buried . * And being in torments in Hades , he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off , and Lazarus in his bosom . * Then he cried and said , Father Abraham , have mercy on me , and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue ; for I am tormented in this flame . * But Abraham said , Son , remember that in your lifetime you received your good things , and likewise Lazarus evil things ; but now he is comforted and you are tormented . * And besides all this , between us and you there is a great chasm fixed , so that those who want to pass from here to you are not able , nor can those from there pass to us . * Then he said , I beg you therefore , father , that you would send him to my father ’s house , * for I have five brothers , that he may testify to them , that they not also come to this place of torment . * Abraham said to him , They have Moses and the Prophets ; let them hear them . * And he said , No , father Abraham ; but if one goes to them from the dead , they will repent . * But he said to him , If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets , neither will they be persuaded though one should rise from the dead .

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