2. And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
3. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.
4. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
5. Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
6. But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
7. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.
8. And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
9. And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.
10. He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.
11. If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?
12. And 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 he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
14. Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
15. And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an abomination before God.
16. The law and the prophets were until John; from that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every one useth violence towards it.