1 And he said also to {his} disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.
2 And having called him, he said to him, What {is} this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
3 And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
4 I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
5 And having called to {him} each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?
6 And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.
7 Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.
8 And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.
9 And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.
10 He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
12 and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave 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 mocked him.
15 And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
16 The law and the prophets {were} until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
17 But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.
18 Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.
19 Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
20 And {there was} a poor man, by name Lazarus, {who} was laid at his gateway full of sores,
21 and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
23 And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.
26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who {desire to cross} from there pass over unto us.
27 And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,
28 for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.
29 But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.
30 But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.
31 And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among {the} dead will they be persuaded.
1 耶稣又对门徒说： "有一个财主的管家， 有人在他主人面前告他浪费主人的财物。
2 主人把他叫来， 对他说： ‘我听见关于你的是怎么一回事呢？把你管理的帐目交代清楚， 因为你不能再作管家了。’
3 那管家心里说： ‘主人不要我再作管家了， 我作什么才好呢？锄地吧， 没有力气！ 讨饭吧， 怕羞！
4 我知道要怎么作了， 好使人在我离开管家的职务以后， 接我到他们家里去。’
5 于是把欠他主人债的人， 一个一个地叫来， 问头一个说： ‘你欠我主人多少？’
6 他说： ‘四千公升油。’管家说： ‘拿你的欠单去， 快坐下写二千。’
7 又问一个说： ‘你欠多少？’他说： ‘四万公升麦子。’管家说： ‘拿你的欠单去， 写三万。’
8 主人就夸奖这不义的管家作事机警； 因为在应付自己的世事上， 今世之子比光明之子更精明。
9 我告诉你们， 要用不义的钱财去结交朋友， 好叫钱财无用的时候， 他们可以接你们到永恒的帐棚里。
10 在最小的事上忠心的， 在大事上也忠心； 在最小的事上不义的， 在大事上也不义。
11 如果你们在不义的钱财上不忠心， 谁还把真实的钱财托付给你们呢？
12 如果你们在别人的东西上不忠心， 谁还把你们自己的东西交给你们呢？
13 "一个家仆不能服事两个主人； 他若不是恨这个爱那个， 就是忠于这个轻视那个。你们不能服事 神， 又服事金钱。"
14 贪财的法利赛人听见这些话， 就嗤笑耶稣。
15 耶稣对他们说： "你们在人面前自称为义， 神却知道你们的心； 因为人所高举的， 神却看作是可憎恶的。
16 律法和先知到约翰就结束了。从此， 神的国的福音就传开了， 人人都要努力进去。
17 天地过去， 要比律法的一点一画失效还容易呢。
18 凡休妻另娶的， 就犯了奸淫； 娶被丈夫所休的， 也是犯了奸淫。
19 "有一个财主， 身穿紫色袍和细麻衣， 天天奢华宴乐。
20 又有一个乞丐， 名叫拉撒路， 满身是疮， 被人放在财主门口，
21 想得财主桌子上掉下来的零碎充饥； 并且有狗来舔他的疮。
22 后来乞丐死了， 被天使送到亚伯拉罕的怀里。那财主也死了， 并且埋葬了。
23 财主在阴间受痛苦， 举目远远望见亚伯拉罕， 和他怀里的拉撒路，
24 就喊着说： ‘我祖亚伯拉罕啊， 可怜我吧！ 打发拉撒路来用指头蘸点水， 凉凉我的舌头吧！ 因为我在这火焰里非常痛苦。’
25 亚伯拉罕说： ‘孩子， 你应该回想你生前享过福， 同样拉撒路受过苦， 现在他在这里得安慰， 你却要受苦了。
26 不但这样， 我们与你们之间， 有深渊隔开， 人想从这边过到你们那里是不可能的， 从那边过到我们这边也是不可能的。’
27 那人说： ‘我祖啊， 那么求你差遣拉撒路到我家里去，
28 因为我有五个兄弟， 他可以警告他们， 免得他们也到这受苦的地方来。’
29 亚伯拉罕说： ‘他们有摩西和先知可以听从。’
30 他说： ‘不然， 我祖亚伯拉罕啊， 如果有人从死人中复活， 到他们那里去， 他们必定会悔改。’
31 亚伯拉罕说： ‘如果他们不听从摩西和先知， 就算有一个从死人中复活的人， 他们也不会接受劝告。’"