8. . V Over-absorption into system

16:1-13

Disciples

"render account, shrewd steward"

16:1 And he said also to the disciples: A certain man there was rich who had a steward, and this was complained of to him as wasting the possessions of him 2 And calling him he said to him: What is this, I hear about thee? render the account of the stewardship of thee; for thou canst not longer to be steward. 3 And said in himself the steward: What may I do, because the lord of me takes away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed. 4 I knew what I may do, that when I am removed out of the stewardship they my receive me into the houses of themselves 5 And calling to him one each of the debtors of the lord of himself he said to the first: How much owest thou to the lord of me? 6 And he said: A hundred baths of oil. And he told him: Take of thee the letters bill and sitting quickly write fifty. 7 then to another he said: thou And how much owest?

And he said: A hundred cors of wheat. tells him. Take of thee the bill and write eighty. 8 And praised the lord the steward of unrighteousness because prudently he acted; because the sons age of this more prudent than the sons of the light in the generation of themselves are. 9 and I you tell, to yourselves make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles. 10 The man faithful in least also in much faithful is, and the man in least unrighteous also in much unrighteous is. 11 If therefore in the unrighteous mammon faithful not ye were, the true who to you will entrust? 12 And if in the thing belonging to another faithful not ye were that which is ours who will give you? 13 No household slave can two lords to serve; for either the one he will hate and the other he will love, or one he will hold fast to and the other he will despise. Ye cannot God to serve and mammon.

9. . V . Material obsession

11:14-31

Pharisees

"rich man and Lazarus"

11:14 Heard how these things all the Pharisees money lovers being and they scoffed at him. 15 And he said to them: Ye are the ones justifying yourselves before men, but God knows the hearts of you; because the thing among men lofty is an abomination before God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John: from then the kingdom of God is being preached and everyone into it is pressing. 7 But easier it is the heaven and the earth to pass away than of the law one little harn to fall. 18 Everyone dismission the wife of him and marrying another commits adultery and the one a woman having been dismissed from a husband marrying commits adulter. 19 Now a certain man was rich, and used to put on a purpose robe and fine linen being merry ever day splendidly. 20 and a certain poor man by name Lazarus

had been placed at the gate of him being covered with sores and 21 desiring to be satisfied from the things falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs coming licked the sores of him. 22 And it came to pass to die the poor man and to be carried away him by the angels into the bosom of Abraham; and died also the rich man and was buried. 23 And in hades lifting up the eyes of him, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in the bosoms of him. 24 And he calling said: Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of the finger of him of in water and may cool the tongue of me, because I am suffering in flame this. 25 But said Abraham; Child, remember that thou didst receive the good things of thee in the life of thee,

and Lazarus likewise the bad; but now here he is comforted, but thou art suffering. 26 And among all these things between us and you chasm a great has been firmly fixed, so that the ones wishing to pass hence to you cannot, neither thence to us may they cross over. 27 And he said: I ask thee therefore, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of the father of me: 28 for I have five brothers; so that he may witness to them, lest also they come to place this of torment. 29 But says Abraham; They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 But he said: No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead should go to them, they will repent. 31 But he said to him: If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if someone out of the dead should rise again will they be persuaded.