1. And He also said to His taught ones, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager and he was accused to him as wasting his possessions.
2. “So having called him he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you are no longer able to be manager.’
3. “And the manager said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the managership away from me. I am unable to dig, I am ashamed to beg.
4. ‘I know what I shall do, that, when I am removed from the managership, they might receive me into their houses.’
5. “And calling every one of his master’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6. “And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
7. “Then to another he said, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
8. “And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
9. “And would I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they shall receive you into everlasting dwellings?
10. “He who is trustworthy in what is least, is trustworthy also in much. And he who is unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.
11. “If, therefore, you have not been trustworthy in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
12. “And if you have not been trustworthy in what is another man’s, who shall give you what is your own?