1 Disse Jesus também aos discípulos: Havia um homem rico, que tinha um administrador; e este lhe foi denunciado como esbanjador dos seus bens.
2 Chamou-o e perguntou-lhe: Que é isto que ouço dizer de ti? dá conta da tua administração; pois já não podes mais ser meu administrador.
3 Disse o administrador consigo: Que hei de fazer, já que o meu amo me tira a administração? Não tenho forças para cavar, de mendigar tenho vergonha.
4 Eu sei o que hei de fazer para que, quando for despedido do meu emprego, me recebam em suas casas.
5 Tendo chamado cada um dos devedores do seu amo, perguntou ao primeiro: Quanto deves ao meu amo?
6 Respondeu ele: Cem cados de azeite. Disse-lhe, então: Toma a tua conta, senta-te depressa e escreve cinqüenta.
7 Depois perguntou a outro: E tu quanto deves? Respondeu ele: Cem coros de trigo. Disse-lhe: Toma a tua conta e escreve oitenta.
8 O amo louvou ao administrador iníquo, por haver procedido sabiamente; porque os filhos deste mundo são mais sábios para com a sua geração do que os filhos da luz.
9 Eu vos digo: Granjeai amigos com as riquezas da iniqüidade, para que, quando estas vos faltarem, vos recebam eles nos tabernáculos eternos.
10 Quem é fiel no pouco, também é fiel no muito; e quem é injusto no pouco, também é injusto no muito.
11 Se, pois, não fostes fiéis nas riquezas injustas, quem vos confiará as verdadeiras?
12 Se não fostes fiéis no alheio, quem vos dará o que é nosso?
13 Nenhum servo pode servir a dois senhores; porque ou há de aborrecer a um e amar ao outro, ou há de unir-se a um e desprezar ao outro. Não podeis servir a Deus e as riquezas.
14 Os fariseus, que eram avarentos, ouviam tudo isto, e mofavam dele.
15 Disse-lhes Jesus: Vós sois os que vos justificais diante dos homens, mas Deus conhece os vossos corações; pois o que é elevado entre os homens, é abominação diante de Deus.
16 A lei e os profetas duraram até João; desde esse tempo o Evangelho do reino de Deus é anunciado, e todos à força entram nele.
17 É, porém, mais fácil passar o céu e a terra, do que cair um til da Lei.
18 Todo aquele que repudia sua mulher e casa com outra, comete adultério; e quem casa com a mulher repudiada, comete adultério.
19 Havia um homem rico, que se vestia de púrpura e de linho finíssimo, e que todos os dias se regalava esplendidamente.
20 Um mendigo chamado Lázaro, coberto de chagas, fora deitado ao seu portão,
21 desejoso de fartar-se com as migalhas que caíam da mesa do rico; e até os cães vinham lamber-lhe as úlceras.
22 Morreu o mendigo, e foi levado pelos anjos para o seio de Abraão; morreu também o rico, e foi sepultado.
23 No Hades, estando em tormentos, levantou os olhos e viu ao longe a Abraão e a Lázaro no seu seio.
24 Clamou: Pai Abraão, tem compaixão de mim! e manda a Lázaro que molhe a ponta do seu dedo, e me refresque a língua, porque estou atormentado nesta chama.
25 Mas Abraão respondeu: Filho, lembra-te que recebeste os teus bens na tua vida, e Lázaro do mesmo modo os males; agora, porém, ele está consolado, e tu em tormentos.
26 Demais, entre nós e vós está firmado um grande abismo, de modo que os que querem passar daqui para vós não podem, nem os de lá passar para nós.
27 Ele replicou: Pai, eu te rogo, então, que o mandes à casa de meu pai
28 (pois tenho cinco irmãos), para os avisar a fim de não suceder virem eles também para este lugar de tormento.
29 Mas Abraão disse: Eles têm Moisés e os profetas; ouçam-nos.
30 Respondeu ele: Não, pai Abraão, mas se alguém for ter com eles dentre os mortos, hão de se arrepender.
31 Replicou-lhe Abraão: Se não ouvem a Moisés e aos profetas, tampouco se deixarão persuadir, ainda que ressuscite alguém dentre os mortos.
1 And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
2 And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
4 I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.
5 And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?
6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.
7 Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.
8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
10 He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
11 If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?
12 And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?
13 No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
16 The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
17 But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
20 And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
21 Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
27 And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
28 For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
30 And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.