New Testament, Luke Chapter 16

Luke Chapter 16|#11 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.#22 And he called him, and said to him, How is it that I hear this of you? Give an account of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.#23 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? For my lord takes away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.#24 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.#25 So he called everyone of his lord's debtors to him, and said to the first, How much owe you to my lord?#26 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.#27 Then said he to another, And how much owe you? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill, and write fourscore.#28 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.|*29 And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.|*210 He that is faithful in which is least is faithful also in much: And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.#211 If therefore you do not have been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?#212 And if you do not have been faithful in which is another man's, who shall give you which is your own?|*213 No servant can 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. You cannot serve God and mammon.|*214 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: And they derided him.#215 And he said to them, you are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: For which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.|*216 The law and the prophets were until John: Since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.|*217 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.|*218 Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: And whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.|*219 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:#220 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,#221 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.#222 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried;#223 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.#224 And 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.#225 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: But now he is comforted, and you are tormented.#226 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: So that they which would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there.#227 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house:#228 For I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.#229 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.#230 And he said, no, father Abraham: But if one went to them from the dead, they will repent.#231 And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.