Luke 16

Thomson^{(i) 1} Then he said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And this steward was accused of having wasted his substance. ² So having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship; for thou canst no longer be steward. ³ Thereupon the steward said within himself, What am I to do, since my lord taketh from me the stewardship; I am not able to dig: to beg I am ashamed. ⁴ I am resolved what to do, that when I am removed from the stewardship, I may be received into their houses. ⁵ So having sent severally for every of his lord's tenants, he said to the first, How much art thou to pay to my lord? ⁶ And he said, A hundred baths of oil. Thereupon he said to him, Take thy lease, and sit down quickly, and write Fifty. ⁷ Then he said to another, And how much art thou to pay? And he said, a hundred cores of wheat. Whereupon he saith to him, Take thy lease and write eighty. ⁸ And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had acted prudently. Because the children of this world are more prudent for their generation, than the children of the light, are for theirs; ⁹ therefore I say to you, From the worldly prudence of this unrighteousness, make ye friends for yourselves, that when you fail, ye may be received into the everlasting abodes. ¹⁰ He who is faithful in very little, is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in very little, is unjust also in much. ¹¹ If you then were not faithful with this unjust worldly prudence who will entrust to you the true? ¹² And if you were not faithful with that which is another's, will any one give you that to be your own? ¹³ No servant can serve two masters; for he will either hate one, and love the other; or he will attach himself to one, and despise the other: you cannot serve God and worldly prudence. ¹⁴ When the Pharisees who loved money heard all these things they treated him with scorn. ¹⁵ Whereupon he said to them, You are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts. Because that which is high among men, is an abomination in the sight of God, ¹⁶ the law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and into it every one is pressing. ¹⁷ But sooner shall the heaven and the earth perish, than one tittle of the law fail. ¹⁸ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery. And whoever marrieth her who hath been divorced committeth adultery. ¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clad with purple and cotton robes, and who feasted daily in a splendid manner. ²⁰ And there was a certain poor man, named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores, ²¹ desirous indeed to be fed with the crumbs which fell from his table: and moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. ²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried. ²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ Whereupon he cried and said, Father, Abraham, have pity 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 And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou receivedst thy good things in thy life time; and Lazarus in like manner, his evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. ²⁶ But besides all this, there is betwixt us and you, a huge gulf fixed; so that they, who would go hence to you, cannot. Neither can they who are there, cross over to us. ²⁷ Then he said, I intreat thee therefore, Father, to send him to my father's house; ²⁸ for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. ²⁹ To this Abraham replied, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hearken to them. ³⁰ Whereupon he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one go to them from the dead, they will reform. ³¹ And Abraham said to him, If they will not hearken to Moses, and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one should rise from the dead.