10. “The one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much.
11. If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
12. And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own?
13. No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.”
14. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.
15. And he said to them, “You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For what is considered exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16. “The law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.
18. “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19. “Now a certain man was rich, and dressed in purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day.
20. And a certain poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate,
21. and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22. Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
23. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he was in torment and saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus at his side.
24. And he called out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!’
25. But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.
26. And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so, nor can they cross over from there to us.’
27. So he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father’s house,