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16 : 1 Now He was also saying to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.
16 : 2 And he called him and said to him, `What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.`
16 : 3 The manager said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
16 : 4 `I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.`
16 : 5 And he summoned each one of his master`s debtors, and he began saying to the first, `How much do you owe my master?`
16 : 6 And he said, `A hundred measures of oil.` And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.`
16 : 7 Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?` And he said, `A hundred measures of wheat.` He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.`
16 : 8 And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
16 : 9 And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
16 : 10 He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.
16 : 11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?
16 : 12 And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another`s, who will give you that which is your own?
16 : 13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other You cannot serve God and wealth.
16 : 14 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.
16 : 15 And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.
16 : 16 The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
16 : 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.
16 : 18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
16 : 19 Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
16 : 20 And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
16 : 21 and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man`s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
16 : 22 Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham`s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.
16 : 23 In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.
16 : 24 And 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 off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.`
16 : 25 But Abraham said, `Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.
16 : 26 `And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.`
16 : 27 And he said, `Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father`s house--
16 : 28 for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.`
16 : 29 But Abraham said, `They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.`
16 : 30 But he said, `No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!`
16 : 31 But he said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.`