8. And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.
9. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
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.