1 En Hy het ook aan sy dissipels gesê: Daar was 'n ryk man wat 'n bestuurder gehad het; en hy is by hom aangeklaag as een wat sy besittings verkwis.

2 En hy het hom geroep en vir hom gesê: Wat is dit wat ek van jou hoor? Gee verslag van jou bestuur van sake; want jy sal nie meer bestuurder kan wees nie.

3 Toe sê die bestuurder by homself: Wat sal ek doen? Want my heer neem die bestuurderskap van my weg. Spit kan ek nie; om te bedel, skaam ek my.

4 Ek weet wat ek sal doen, sodat wanneer ek van die bestuurderskap afgesit is, hulle my in hulle huise kan ontvang.

5 Toe roep hy die skuldenaars van sy heer, een vir een, en sê vir die eerste: Hoeveel skuld jy aan my heer?

6 En hy antwoord: honderd vat olie. En hy sê vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys, gaan sit en skryf gou vyftig.

7 Daarna sê hy vir 'n ander een: En jy, hoeveel skuld jy? En hy antwoord: honderd mud koring. Toe sê hy vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys en skryf tagtig.

8 En die heer het die onregverdige bestuurder geprys, omdat hy verstandig gehandel het; want die kinders van hierdie wêreld is verstandiger teenoor hulle geslag as die kinders van die lig.

9 En Ek sê vir julle: Maak vir julle vriende deur die onregverdige Mammon, sodat wanneer julle die lewe verlaat, hulle jul in die ewige tente kan ontvang.

10 Hy wat getrou is in die minste, is ook in die grote getrou; en hy wat onregverdig is in die minste, is ook in die grote onregverdig.

11 As julle dan nie getrou was in die onregverdige Mammon nie, wie sal julle die ware goed toevertrou?

12 En as julle nie getrou was in 'n ander se goed nie, wie sal aan julle jul eie gee?

13 Geen huiskneg kan twee here dien nie; want hy sal •f die een haat en die ander een liefhê, •f die een aanhang en die ander een verag. Julle kan nie God ,n Mammon dien nie.

14 En die Fariseërs, wat geldgierig was, het ook al hierdie dinge gehoor en Hom beskimp.

15 En Hy het vir hulle gesê: Dit is julle wat julself regverdig voor die mense, maar God ken julle harte; want wat by die mens hoog geag word, is 'n gruwel voor God.

16 Die wet en die profete was tot op Johannes; van toe af word die evangelie van die koninkryk van God verkondig, en elkeen dring met geweld daarin.

17 Maar dit is makliker dat die hemel en die aarde verbygaan as dat een tittel van die wet sou val.

18 Elkeen wat van sy vrou skei en 'n ander een trou, pleeg egbreuk; en elkeen wat trou met die vrou wat van haar man geskei is, pleeg egbreuk.

19 En daar was 'n ryk man, en hy het purper en fyn linne gedra en elke dag vrolik en weelderig gelewe.

20 En daar was 'n bedelaar met die naam van Lasarus wat vol swere voor sy poort gelê het.

21 En hy het verlang om hom te versadig met die krummels wat van die ryk man se tafel val. Ja, selfs die honde het gekom en sy swere gelek.

22 En toe die bedelaar sterf, is hy deur die engele weggedra na die boesem van Abraham.

23 En die ryk man het ook gesterwe en is begrawe. En toe hy in die doderyk sy oë ophef, terwyl hy in smarte was, sien hy Abraham van ver af en Lasarus aan sy boesem.

24 En hy roep en sê: Vader Abraham, wees my barmhartig en stuur Lasarus, dat hy die punt van sy vinger in water kan insteek en my tong verkoel; want ek ly smarte in hierdie vlam.

25 Maar Abraham antwoord: Kind, onthou dat jy jou goeie dinge in jou lewe ontvang het, en so ook Lasarus die slegte. En nou word hy getroos, maar jy ly smarte.

26 En by dit alles is daar tussen ons en julle 'n groot kloof gevestig, sodat die wat hiervandaan wil oorgaan na julle, nie kan nie; en die wat d r is, nie na ons kan oorkom nie.

27 En hy sê: Ek bid u dan, vader, om hom na my vader se huis te stuur --

28 want ek het vyf broers -- om hulle dringend te waarsku, sodat hulle nie ook in hierdie plek van pyniging kom nie.

29 Toe sê Abraham vir hom: Hulle het Moses en die Profete; laat hulle na die luister.

30 Maar hy antwoord: Nee, vader Abraham, maar as iemand uit die dode na hulle gaan, sal hulle hul bekeer.

31 Maar hy sê vir hom: As hulle na Moses en die Profete nie luister nie, sal hulle nie oortuig word nie, al sou iemand ook uit die dode opstaan.

1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5 So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. 18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.