12. And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
13. “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
14. The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.
15. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
16. “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing their way into it.
17. It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.
18. “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
19. “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.
20. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores
21. and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22. “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
23. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.