1Jesus also told his disciples, “There was once a rich man who had a manager. Someone accused the manager of wasting the rich man’s possessions.
2So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give me an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’
3“The manager thought to himself, ‘What will I do, since my master is taking away my job? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg.’
4‘I know what I’ll do so that people will welcome me into their homes when I lose my job.’
5Then he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6The man replied, ‘One hundred jars of olive oil.’ The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and change it to fifty.’
7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The man said, ‘One hundred measures of wheat.’ He told him, ‘Take your bill and change it to eighty.’
8“The master praised the dishonest manager for acting shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.
9I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it’s gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
10Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
11So if you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
12And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
13No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
14The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and scoffed at Jesus.
15He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
16The Law and the Prophets were in effect until John. Since then, the good news of God’s Kingdom is being preached, and everyone is trying to enter it with force.
17But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the Law to be dropped.
18Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19“There was a rich man who regularly dressed in purple and fine linen, and lived in luxury every day.
20At his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, who was covered with sores
21and longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22The beggar died, and angels carried him to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
23In the place of the dead, while in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
24He called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you received good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.
26Besides this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
27The rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house—
28for I have five brothers—to warn them, so that they won’t also come to this place of torment.’
29But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; they should listen to them.’
30He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will change their ways.’
31Abraham said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”