16Luke 16

1He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.Select Luke 16:1

2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’Select Luke 16:2

3“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.Select Luke 16:3

4I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’Select Luke 16:4

5Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’Select Luke 16:5

6He said, ‘A hundred batosof oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’Select Luke 16:6

7Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred corsof wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’Select Luke 16:7

8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.Select Luke 16:8

9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.Select Luke 16:9

10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.Select Luke 16:10

11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?Select Luke 16:11

12If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?Select Luke 16:12

13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”Select Luke 16:13

14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.Select Luke 16:14

15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.Select Luke 16:15

16The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.Select Luke 16:16

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.Select Luke 16:17

18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.Select Luke 16:18

19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.Select Luke 16:19

20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,Select Luke 16:20

21and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.Select Luke 16:21

22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.Select Luke 16:22

23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.Select Luke 16:23

24He 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 in anguish in this flame.’Select Luke 16:24

25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.Select Luke 16:25

26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’Select Luke 16:26

27“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house;Select Luke 16:27

28for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’Select Luke 16:28

29“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’Select Luke 16:29

30“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’Select Luke 16:30

31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”Select Luke 16:31