Luke 16:8-18

⁸His master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder in dealing with their fellow men than those who have the light.

⁹And I say to you ‘Win friends for yourselves with your dishonest money,’ so that, when it comes to an end, there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home.

¹⁰The person who is trustworthy in the smallest matter is trustworthy in a great one also; and the person who is dishonest in the smallest matter is dishonest in a great one also.

¹¹So, if you have proved untrustworthy with the dishonest money, who will trust you with the true?

¹²And, if you have proved untrustworthy with what does not belong to us, who will give you what is really our own?

¹³No servant can serve two masters, for, either they will hate one and love the other, or else they will attach themselves to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”

¹⁴All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.

¹⁵“You,” said Jesus, “are the ones who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among people may be an abomination in the sight of God.

¹⁶The Law and the prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the good news of the kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing their way into it.

¹⁷It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.

¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer, and the man who marries a divorced woman is an adulterer.