11. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?
12. If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?
13. No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
14. The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.
15. And he said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God.
16. “The law and the prophets lasted until John; but from then on the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone who enters does so with violence.
17. It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part 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. “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.
20. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
21. who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.