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* To his disciples he said . "There was a certain rich man who had a steward , and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property . * "He called to him to him and said . "What is this that I hear about you ? Render an account of your stewardship ; for you can no longer be steward . * "Now the steward said to himself . What shall I do , now that my master is taking away my stewardship ? I am not strong enough to dig , to beg I am ashamed . * "I know what I will do , so that when I am put out of my stewardship , they may receive me into their houses . * "So he called to him each of his masters debtors and said to the first , How much money do you owe my master ? * "A hundred measures of oil , he answered . "He said to him , Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty ." * "To a second he said , How much do you owe ? "The man answered , A hundred measures of wheat . "Here is you bill , he said , change it to eighty measures . * "And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly ; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light . * "And to you I say , Use mammon , dishonest as it is , to make yourselves friends , so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles . * "The man who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much , and he who is unjust in a very little , is unjust also as much . * "If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon , who will trust to you the true riches ? * "And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another , who will give you what is your own ? * "No one can be a household servants to two masters ; for either he will hate the one and love the other , or he will cling to the one and despise the other . You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon ." * Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him . * He said to them . "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men ; but God knows you hearts ; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God . * "The Law and the Prophet lasted until John ; since then the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached , and any one presses in . * "Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away then for one title of the law to fail . * "Every man who divorces his wife and marries some one else , commits adultery ; and he who marries one who is put away by her husband commits adultery . * "Now there was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen , and made merry every day in splendor . * "And a certain beggar named Lazarus was thrown at his door . * "He was full of sores , and longingly desired to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich mans table . Yes ! even the dogs came and licked his sores . * "But in the course of time the beggar died ; and he was carried by angels into Abrahams bosom . * "The rich man also died , and was buried . And as he was tormented in Hades , he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom . * "And he cried out and said , Father Abraham have mercy on me ; and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue , for I am in anguish in this flame . * "Remember my son . said Abraham , that you had in your lifetime all your good things , and in the same way Lazarus his evil things ; but now here he is comforted , and you are in anguish . * "But besides all this , between us and you there is a great chasm fixed , so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot , nor can those who would cross from you to us . * "I beg you then , father , he said , send him to my fathers house . For I have five brothers . * "Let him earnestly warn them , lest they too come to this place of torment . * "But Abraham said , They have Moses and the Prophets , let them listen to them . * "Nay , Father Abraham , he said but if some one went to them from the dead they would repent . * "If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets , said Father Abraham , neither will they be persuaded if one should rise from the dead ." * Jesus said to his disciples . "It is not possible but that occasions of stumbling should occur , but woe to him through whom they come ! * "It were well for him if a millstone were tied about his neck , and he were hurled into the sea , rather than he should cause one of these little ones to stumble . * "Be on you guard ! "If your brother sins , rebuke him , and if he repents forgive him . * "And if he sins against you seven times a day , and seven times a day turns to you saying I repent , you shall forgive him ." * The apostles said to the Lord , "Increase our faith !" * "If your faith ," answered Jesus , "were like a grain of mustard-seed , you would say to this tree , Tear yourself up and be planted in the sea , and it would obey you . * "But who of you who has a slave plowing or keeping sheep , will say to him , when he is come in from the field , Come at once , sit down to dinner , * "and will not rather tell him , Get ready something for me to eat , and gird yourself to wait on me until I have eaten and drunken . Then you shall eat and drink . * "Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded ? * "Even so , you also , after you have done all the things that are commanded you , should say , We are but slaves , we have only done what it was our duty to do ." * Now it happened that as he went his way to Jerusalem , he passed between Samaria and Galilee . * And as he was going certain village ten lepers met him . * They stood at a distance and lifted up their voices , saying , "Jesus , Master , take pity on us ." * Perceiving this he said to them , "Go and show yourselves to the priest ." And as they went they were made clean . * Now one of them , as he saw that he was cured , came back , glorifying God in a loud voice , * and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him . He was a Samaritan . * "Were there not ten cleansed ?" asked Jesus , "but where are the nine ? * "Are there none found to return and give glory to God except this foreigner ?" * And he said unto him , "Rise and go , your faith has healed you ." * The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming . He answered . "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it , * "nor will they say , Look here it is ! or See there ! - for the kingdom of God is now in your midst ." * Then he said turning to his disciples . "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man , you shall not see it . * "And they shall say to you , Lo there ! Lo there ! But do not go away or follow them . * "For as the lightning when it lightens out of the one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven , so shall the Son of man be in his day . * "But first he must suffer many things , and be rejected buy his generation . * "And this was in the time of Noah , so will it be in the time of the Son of man . * "Men were eating and drinking ; they were marrying and being married , until the day that Noah entered into the ark , and the flood came and destroyed them all . * "The same was true in the time of Lot ; they were eating and drinking , buying and selling , planting and building ; * "but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all . * "In the same manner it shall be in the day that the Son of man shall be revealed . * "On that day , if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside , let him not go down to take them away ; nor should a man in the field turn back . * "Remember Lots wife ! * "Whoever seeks to keep his life shall lose it ; but whoever loses it shall preserve it . * "I tell you that in one night there shall be two men in one bed ; one shall be taken and the other left . * "There shall be two women grinding together ; the one shall be taken and the other left ." * (wanting in the most ancient manuscripts ) * "Where , Master ?" they asked him . "Where the dead body is ," he answered , "there will the vultures be gathered together ." * He also taught them by a parable how they ought always to pray and never to lose heart .

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