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1 And he said also unto his dis­ci­ples, There was a cer­tain rich man, which had a stew­ard; and the same was ac­cused unto him that he had wast­ed his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an ac­count of thy stew­ard­ship; for thou mayest be no longer stew­ard. 3 Then the stew­ard said with­in him­self, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stew­ard­ship: I can­not dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am re­solved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stew­ard­ship, they may re­ceive me into their hous­es. 5 So he called ev­ery one of his lord's debtors un­to him, and said unto the first, How much ow­est thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, An hun­dred mea­sures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quick­ly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to an­oth­er, And how much ow­est thou? And he said, An hun­dred mea­sures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 8 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. 9 And I say unto you, Make to your­selves friends of the mam­mon of un­righ­teous­ness; that, when ye fail, they may re­ceive you into ev­er­last­ing habi­ta­tions. 10 He that is faith­ful in that which is least is faith­ful also in much: and he that is un­just in the least is un­just also in much. 11 If there­fore ye have not been faith­ful in the un­righ­teous mam­mon, who will com­mit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faith­ful in that which is an­oth­er man's, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 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. Ye can­not serve God and mam­mon. 14 And the Phar­isees al­so, who were cov­etous, heard all these things: and they de­rid­ed him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which jus­ti­fy your­selves be­fore men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is high­ly es­teemed among men is abom­i­na­tion in the sight of God. 16 The law and the prophets were un­til John: since that time the king­dom of God is preached, and ev­ery man pres­seth into it. 17 And it is eas­i­er for heav­en and earth to pass, than one tit­tle of the law to fail. 18 Whoso­ev­er put­teth away his wife, and mar­ri­eth an­oth­er, com­mit­teth adul­tery: and whoso­ev­er mar­ri­eth her that is put away from her hus­band com­mit­teth adul­tery. 19 There was a cer­tain rich man, which was clothed in pur­ple and fine linen, and fared sump­tu­ous­ly ev­ery day: 20 And there was a cer­tain beg­gar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And de­sir­ing to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: more­over the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 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; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, be­ing in tor­ments, and seeth Abra­ham afar off, and Lazarus in his bo­som. 24 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. 25 But Abra­ham said, Son, re­mem­ber that thou in thy life­time re­ceivedst thy good things, and like­wise Lazarus evil things: but now he is com­fort­ed, and thou art tor­ment­ed. 26 And be­side all this, be­tween us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you can­not; nei­ther can they pass to us, that ­would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee there­fore, fa­ther, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may tes­ti­fy unto them, lest they also come into this place of tor­ment. 29 Abra­ham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, fa­ther Abra­ham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will re­pent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, nei­ther will they be per­suad­ed, though one rose from the dead.