| 1 | He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. |
| 2 | And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.' |
| 3 | And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. |
| 4 | I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.' |
| 5 | So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my master?' |
| 6 | He said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' |
| 7 | Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?' He said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.' |
| 8 | The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. |
| 9 | And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations. |
| 10 | "He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much. |
| 11 | If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches? |
| 12 | And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will 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 he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." |
| 14 | The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him. |
| 15 | But he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. |