Luke 16:4-15

New American Standard Bible

⁴ I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’ ⁵ And he summoned each one of his ^[a]master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶ And he said, ‘A hundred ^[b]jugs 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?’ And he said, ‘A hundred ^[c]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ ⁸ And his ^[d]master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of ^(A)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own ^[e]kind than the ^(B)sons of light. ⁹ And I say to you, ^(C)make friends for yourselves by means of the ^[f](D)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it ^[g]is all gone, ^(E)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ “^(F)The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and the one who is unrighteous in a very little thing is also unrighteous in much. ¹¹ Therefore if you have not ^[h]been faithful in the use of unrighteous ^[i](G)wealth, who will entrust the true wealth to you? ¹² And if you have not ^[j]been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? ^13 (H)No ^[k]servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and ^[l](I)wealth.”

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were ^(J)lovers of money, were listening to all these things and ^(K)were ^[m]ridiculing Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “You are the ones who ^(L)justify yourselves in the sight of people, but ^(M)God knows your hearts; because that which is highly esteemed among people is detestable in the sight of God.