Read the Bible

¹ And he said also to the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he was wasting his goods.² 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 no longer be steward.³ And the steward said to himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord takes away the stewardship from me? I don't have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.⁴ I have resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.⁵ And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much do you owe to my lord?⁶ And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.⁷ Then he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He says to him, Take your bond, and write eighty.⁸ 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.⁹ 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.¹⁰ He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.¹¹ If therefore you haven't been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?¹² And if you haven't been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?¹³ No household slave can serve as a slave to two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to one, and despise the other. You can't serve as a slave to God and mammon.¹⁴ And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.¹⁵ And he said to them, You are those that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is disgusting in the sight of God.¹⁶ 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.¹⁷ But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.¹⁸ Every one that divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and he that marries her that has been divorced from a husband commits adultery.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:²⁰ and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores,²¹ and desiring to be fed with the [crumbs] that fell from the rich man's table; yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.²² 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.²³ And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.²⁴ 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.²⁵ 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.²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those that would pass from here to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.²⁷ And he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house;²⁸ for I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.²⁹ But Abraham says, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.³⁰ And he said, No, father Abraham: but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.³¹ And he said to him, If they don't hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one would rise from the dead.