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.
17. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.
18. Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband, commmitteth adultery.
19. There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.
20. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,
21. Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.