Luke 16
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And he said also to the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward;
and the same was accused to him whom he was wasting his goods.
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And he called him, and said to him, What is this that I hear of you? render the account
of your stewardship; for you can be no longer steward.
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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord takes away
the stewardship from me? I have not strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.
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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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And calling to him each one of his lord`s debtors, he said to the first, How much
owe you to my lord?
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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bond, and sit
down quickly and write fifty.
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Then said he to another, And how much owe you? And he said, A hundred measures of
wheat. He says to him, Take your bond, and write fourscore.
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And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the
sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
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And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness;
that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
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He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he who is unrighteous
in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit
to your trust the true [riches]?
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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another`s, who will give you that
which is your own?
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No 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 cannot serve God and mammon.
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And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed
at him.
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And he said to them, You are they that 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.
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The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom
of God is preached, and every man enters violently into it.
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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law
to fall.
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Every one that puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and he who
marries one that is put away from a husband commits adultery.
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Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring
sumptuously every day:
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and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores,
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and desiring to be fed with the [crumbs] that fell from the rich man`s table; yea,
even the dogs come and licked his sores.
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And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels
into Abraham`s bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried.
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And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off,
and Lazarus in his bosom.
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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 in anguish in
this flame.
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But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things,
and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted and you are in
anguish.
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And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that
would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there
to us.
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And he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father`s
house;
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for I have five brethren; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this
place of torment.
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But Abraham says, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
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And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.
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And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded, if one rise from the dead.