Luke 16:1-13

¹Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was
accused of wasting his possessions. ² So he called him in and asked him,
‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management,
because you cannot be manager any longer.’
³ “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is
taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to
beg— ⁴ I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will
welcome me into their houses.’
⁵ “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first,
‘How much do you owe my master?’
⁶ “ ‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied.
“The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it
four hundred.’
⁷ “Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’
“ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.
“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’
⁸ “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted
shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with
their own kind than are the people of the light. ⁹ I tell you, use worldly
wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be
welcomed into eternal dwellings.
¹⁰ “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with
much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest
with much. ¹¹ So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly
wealth, who will trust you with true riches? ¹² And if you have not been
trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of
your own?
¹³ “No servant can serve two masters. 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 both God and Money.”

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