Luke 16:7-15

⁷Afterward he said to another, And how much owest thou? Which answered, An hundred cors of wheat or An hundred measures of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy letters, and write fourscore.

⁸And the lord praised the bailiff of wickedness or And the lord praised the farmer of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light. (And the lord praised the steward for his wickedness, or his shrewdness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent with their affairs, than the sons of the light be.)

⁹And I say to you, make ye to you friends of the riches of wickedness, (so) that when ye shall fail, they receive you into everlasting tabernacles.

¹⁰He that is true in the least thing, is true also in the more (thing), or He that is faithful in the least thing, is faithful also in the more; and he that is wicked in a little thing, is wicked also in the more (things). (He who is true in the least thing, is also true in the greater thing; and he who is wicked in a little thing, is also wicked in the greater things.)

¹¹Therefore if ye were not true in the wicked thing of riches or Therefore if ye were not true in the wicked riches, who shall betake to you that that is very or (that) that is sooth? (or who shall deliver unto you that which is truly valuable?)

¹²And if ye were not true in other men’s thing(s), who shall give to you that that is yours?

¹³No servant may serve to two lords; for either he shall hate the one, and love the other; either he shall draw to the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve to God and to riches (or Ye cannot serve God and money, or wealth). No manservant may serve two lords; forsooth either he shall hate one, and love the other; either he shall cleave to one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve to God and riches.

¹⁴But the Pharisees, that were covetous, heard all these things, and they scorned him.

¹⁵And he said to them, Ye it be, that justify you(rselves) before men; but God hath known your hearts or soothly God knoweth your hearts, for that that is high to men, is (an) abomination before God.