12. And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own?
13. No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.”
14. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
15. And he said to them, “You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For what is considered exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16. “The law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.
18. “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19. “Now a certain man was rich, and dressed in purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
20. And a certain poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate,
21. and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22. Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.