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Luke - ch 16 v 1 - 20
- And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.
- And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
- And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.
- I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
- Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
- But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
- Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.
- And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
- And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.
- He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.
- If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?
- And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?
- No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
- Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
- And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.
- The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.
- And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.
- Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, commmitteth adultery.
- There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.
- And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
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