Luke 16:1-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

16 And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.

² And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.

³ And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

⁴ I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

⁵ Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

⁶ But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

⁷ Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.

⁸ And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

⁹ And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.