016:008 "And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness;
for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this
age are shrewder than the sons of Light.
016:009 "But I charge you, so to use the wealth which is ever
tempting to dishonesty as to win friends who, when it fails,
shall welcome you to the tents that never perish.
016:010 The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest
in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small
matter is dishonest in a great one also.
016:011 If therefore you have not proved yourselves faithful in dealing
with the wealth that is tainted with fraud, who will entrust
to you the true good?
016:012 And if you have not been faithful in dealing with that which is
not your own, who will give you that which is your own?
016:013 "No servant can be in bondage to two masters.
For either he will hate one and love the other,
or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other.
You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."
016:014 To all this the Pharisees listened, bitterly jeering at Him;
for they were lovers of money.
016:015 "You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness
before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds
a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.
016:016 The Law and the Prophets continued until John came:
from that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God has
been spreading, and all classes have been forcing their
way into it.
016:017 But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one
smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.
016:018 Every man who divorces his wife and marries another