Luke 16:1-18

1Now Yeshua was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a household manager, and this manager was accused of squandering his belongings.

2So he called the manager and said to him, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

3“Then the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.

4I know what I’ll do, so that when I’m put out of management others will welcome me into their homes.’

5So he called in each one of his master’s debtors, and he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

6“He said, ‘One hundred units of olive oil.’ “The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

7Then he said to another, ‘Now how much do you owe?’ “He said, ‘A hundred units of wheat.’ “The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’

8“Now the master praised the crooked manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the sons of this age are smarter when dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

9I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the wealth of the world, so when it runs out, they will welcome you into the eternal shelters.

10“One who is faithful in the smallest matters is also faithful in much, and the one unjust in the smallest matters will likewise be unjust in much.

11So then, if you cannot be trusted with unjust wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

12Now if you have not been trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you anything of your own?

13No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick by one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

14Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and sneering at Yeshua.

15But He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before the people, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable in God’s sight.”

16“The Torah and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since then, the Good News of the kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and everyone tries forcing his way in.

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single serif of the Torah to fail.

18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. And he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.