[1] And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.
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[2] And he called him, and said to him, How is it that I hear this of you? give an account of your stewardship; for you may be no longer steward.
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[3] Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
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[4] I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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[5] So he called every one of his lord’s debtors to him, and said to the first, How much owe you to my lord?
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[6] And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
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[7] Then said he to another, And how much owe you? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take your bill, and write fourscore.
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[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.
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[9] And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
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[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.
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[11] If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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[12] And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? ¶
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[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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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[14] And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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[15] And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
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[16] The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it.
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[17] And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one pronunciation mark of the law to fail.
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[18] Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery. ¶
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[19] There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
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[20] And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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[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.
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[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;
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[23] And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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[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.
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[25] But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented.
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[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 there.
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[27] Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house:
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[28] For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
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[29] Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
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[30] And he said, No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will repent.
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[31] And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
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