Luke 16

¹He also said to the disciples , There was a rich man who had a manager , and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions .

²And he called him and said to him , What is this that I hear about you ? Turn in the account of your management , for you can no longer be manager .

³And 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 , and I am ashamed to beg .

⁴I have decided what to do , so that when I am removed from management , people may receive me into their houses .

⁵So , summoning his master’s debtors one by one , he said to the first , How much do you owe my master ?

⁶He said , A hundred measures of oil . He said to him , Take your bill , and sit down quickly and write fifty .

⁷Then 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 .

⁸The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness . For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light .

⁹And I tell you , make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth , so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings .

¹⁰One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much , and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much .

¹¹If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth , who will entrust to you the true riches?

¹²And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s , who will give you that which is your own ?

¹³No 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 money .

¹⁴The Pharisees , who were lovers of money , heard all these things , and they ridiculed him .

¹⁵And 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 .

¹⁶The Law and the Prophets were until John ; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached , and everyone forces his way into it .

¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void .

¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery , and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery .

¹⁹There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day .

²⁰And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus , covered with sores ,

²¹who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table . Moreover , even the dogs came and licked his sores .

²²The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side . The rich man also died and was buried ,

²³and in Hades , being in torment , he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side .

²⁴And he called out , Father Abraham , have mercy on me , and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue , for I am in anguish in this flame .

²⁵But Abraham said , Child , remember that you in your lifetime received your good things , and Lazarus in like manner bad things ; but now he is comforted here , and you are in anguish .

²⁶And besides all this , between us and you a great chasm has been fixed , in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able , and none may cross from there to us .

²⁷And he said , Then I beg you , father , to send him to my father’s house —

²⁸for I have five brothers —so that he may warn them , lest they also come into this place of torment .

²⁹But Abraham said , They have Moses and the Prophets ; let them hear them .

³⁰And he said , No , father Abraham , but if someone goes to them from the dead , they will repent .

³¹He said to him , If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets , neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead .