The Unrighteous Manager

16 Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was ^[a]reported to him as ^(A)squandering his possessions. ² And he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ ³ And the manager said to himself, ‘What am I to do, since my ^[b]master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to ^[c]dig; I am ashamed to beg. 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 ^[d]master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

⁷ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred ^[a]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ ⁸ And his ^[b]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 ^[c]kind than the ^(B)sons of light. ⁹ And I say to you, ^(C)make friends for yourselves by means of the ^[d](D)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it ^[e]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.