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| 16:1 |
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.
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| 16:2 |
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.'
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| 16:3 |
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.
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| 16:4 |
I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'
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| 16:5 |
So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, How much do you owe my master?'
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| 16:6 |
He said, A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
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| 16:7 |
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.'
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| 16:8 |
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.
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| 16:9 |
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.
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| 16:10 |
'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.
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| 16:11 |
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
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| 16:12 |
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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| 16:13 |
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.'
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| 16:14 |
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him.
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| 16:15 |
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.
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| 16:16 |
'The law and the prophets were until John;since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently.
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| 16:17 |
But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.
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| 16:18 |
'Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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| 16:19 |
'There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
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| 16:20 |
And at his gate lay a poor man named Laz'arus, full of sores,
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| 16:21 |
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table;moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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| 16:22 |
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
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| 16:23 |
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz'arus in his bosom.
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| 16:24 |
And he called out, Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz'arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue;for I am in anguish in this flame.'
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| 16:25 |
But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Laz'arus in like manner evil things;but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
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| 16:26 |
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'
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| 16:27 |
And he said, Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house,
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| 16:28 |
for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.'
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| 16:29 |
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets;let them hear them.'
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| 16:30 |
And he said, No, father Abraham;but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
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| 16:31 |
He said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.''
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