1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2 He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

3 "The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’ 5 Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’ 6 He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light. 9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. 10 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will 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 one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon."

14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. 15 He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

16 "The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. 17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

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

19 "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores, 21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. 24 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 in anguish in this flame.’

25 "But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish. 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

27 "He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’

29 "But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

30 "He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

31 "He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’"

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.