9. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.
10. “The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
11. If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?
12. And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?
13. No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
14. The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
15. But Jesus said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
16. “The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.
17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.
18. “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
19. “There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
20. But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,
21. who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.