7. Next, he said to another, 'In truth, how much do you owe?' And he said, 'One hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your record books, and write eighty.'
8. And the lord praised the iniquitous steward, in that he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent with their generation than are the sons of light.
9. And so I say to you, make friends for yourself using iniquitous mammon, so that, when you will have passed away, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
10. Whoever is faithful in what is least, is also faithful in what is greater. And whoever is unjust in what is small, is also unjust in what is greater.
11. So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
12. And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?
13. No servant is able to serve two lords. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
14. But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him.
15. And he said to them: "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16. The law and the prophets were until John. Since then, the kingdom of God is being evangelized, and everyone acts with violence toward it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to fall away.
18. Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And whoever marries her who has been divorced by her husband commits adultery.
19. A certain man was wealthy, and he was clothed in purple and in fine linen. And he feasted splendidly every day.
20. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, covered with sores,
21. wanting to be filled with the crumbs which were falling from the wealthy man's table. But no one gave it to him. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.