16:1And he was saying also to his disciples: "There was a certain rich man, who had a steward: and this man was accused to him of having squandered his goods. 16:2And he called him, and said to him: 'What is this I hear about you? 16:2Render an account of your stewardship: for you will no longer be able to be steward.' 16:3And the steward said within himself: 'What shall I do, because my lord is taking away the stewardship from me? 16:3To dig I am not strong enough, to beg I am ashamed. 16:4I know what I will do, so that, when I have been removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.' 16:5And so, his lord's debtors having been called together one by one, he was saying to the first: 'How much do you owe my lord?' 16:6And he said: 'A hundred jars of oil.' 16:6And he said to him: 'Take your bond: and sit down quickly, write fifty.' 16:7Then he said to another: 'And you, how much do you owe?' 16:7He said: 'A hundred measures of wheat.' 16:7He said to him: 'Take your writing, and write eighty.' 16:8And the lord praised the steward of iniquity, because he had acted prudently: because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light in their own generation.
16:9And I say to you: make friends for yourselves out of the mammon of iniquity: so that, when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. 16:10He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in what is greater: and he who is unjust in a little is unjust also in what is greater. 16:11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will entrust to you what is true? 16:12And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? 16:13No servant can serve two lords: for either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will cling to the one, and despise the other.
16:13You cannot serve God and mammon." 16:14Now the Pharisees, who were greedy, were hearing all these things: and they were mocking him. 16:15And he said to them: "You are the ones who justify yourselves before people: but God knows your hearts: because what is lofty to people is an abomination before God. 16:16The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed as good news, and everyone uses force into it. 16:17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the law to fall. 16:18Everyone who sends away his wife and marries another commits adultery: and he who marries a woman sent away by her husband commits adultery.
16:19There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and was feasting splendidly every day. 16:20And there was a certain beggar, by name Lazarus, who was lying at his gate, full of sores, longing to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table, and no one was giving to him: but even the dogs were coming, and were licking his sores. 16:22And it happened that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. 16:22And the rich man also died, and was buried in hell. 16:23And lifting up his eyes, when he was in torments, he saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus in his bosom: and he himself, crying out, said: 'Father Abraham, have pity on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, so that he may cool my tongue, because I am tormented in this flame.' 16:25And Abraham said to him: 'Son, remember that you received good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things: but now he is comforted here, and you are tormented: and in addition to all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed: so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor cross over from there to here.' 16:27And he said: 'I ask you, therefore, father, that you send him into the house of my father: for I have five brothers: so that he may testify to them, lest they too come into this place of torments.' 16:29And Abraham said to him: 'They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.' 16:30But he said: 'No, father Abraham: but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will do penance.' 16:31And he said to him: 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe if someone rises again from the dead.'"