Luke Chapter 16
1 Then Jesus said to His disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward. The same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.
2 So, the man called his steward and said to him: How is it that I hear this of you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you cannot⁺ be my steward any longer.
3 Then the steward said within himself: What shall I do? For my lord~ now takes the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig and I am ashamed to beg.
4 I know⁺ what I will do, so that when I am removed⁺ from the stewardship position, they may receive me into their houses.
5 So he called everyone of his lord's debtors and said to the first: How much do you owe to my lord~?
6 He said: A hundred measures of oil. The steward said to him: Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
7 Then he said to another: How much do you owe? He said: A hundred measures of wheat. The steward said to him: Take your bill and write eighty.
8 The lord~ commended~ the unrighteous⁺ steward because he had done shrewdly⁺. For the children of this world are, in their generation, more shrewd⁺ than the children of light.
9 I say to you: If you make yourselves friends with the worldly treasures⁺ of unrighteousness, then when you fail, they will receive you into their eternal⁺ dwellings⁺.
10 Those who are faithful in the smallest⁺ matters are also faithful in much and those who are unrighteous⁺ in the smallest⁺ matters are also unrighteous in much.
11 Therefore, if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous worldly treasures⁺, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 If you have not been faithful in what is another's, who will give you your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters. For either a servant will hate the one and love the other, or else hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and worldly treasures⁺. Matthew 6:24
14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, also heard all these things and they ridiculed⁺ Him.
15 He said to them: You ⁺ justify yourselves before people⁺, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among people⁺ is an abomination in the sight of God.
16 The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time, the kingdom of God is proclaimed⁺ and everyone⁺ presses into it.
17 It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass, than one smallest mark⁺ of the law to fail.
18 Whoever puts away his wife and marries another, commits adultery. Whoever marries one who is put away from her husband commits adultery. Matthew 19:9
19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury⁺ and merrymaking⁺ every day.
20 And, there was a certain beggar named Lazarus who laid at the rich man's gate, full of sores,
21 desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 Now it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom~. Then the rich man also died and was buried.
23 In Hell, being in torments, the rich man lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham at a far distance⁺, and Lazarus in his bosom~.
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 my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
25 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.
26 Above⁺ all this, there is a great chasm⁺ fixed between you and us so that whoever might want⁺ to go⁺ from here⁺ to you cannot. Nor can anyone⁺ from there come⁺ to us.
27 Then the rich man said: I beg⁺ you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house.
28 For I have five brothers, and I pray that he might testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.
30 He said: No, father Abraham, but if one went to them from the dead, they will repent.
31 Abraham said to him: If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, even though one rose from the dead.