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Luke 16

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1 Speaking to the talmidim, Yeshua said: "There was a wealthy man who employed a general manager. Charges were brought to him that his manager was squandering his resources.
1 And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
2 So he summoned him and asked him, `What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.'
2 And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
3 "`What am I to do?' said the manager to himself. `My boss is firing me, I'm not strong enough to dig ditches, and I'm ashamed to go begging.
3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
4 Aha! I know what I'll do -- something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I've lost my job here!'
4 I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.
5 "So, after making appointments with each of his employer's debtors, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my boss?'
5 And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?
6 `Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,' he replied. `Take your note back,' he told him. `Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for four hundred!'
6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.
7 To the next he said, `And you, how much do you owe?' `A thousand bushels of wheat,' he replied. `Take your note back and write one for eight hundred.'
7 Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.
8 "And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for acting so shrewdly! For the worldly have more sekhel than those who have received the light -- in dealing with their own kind of people!
8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
9 "Now what I say to you is this: use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it gives out, you may be welcomed into the eternal home.
9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
10 Someone who is trustworthy in a small matter is also trustworthy in large ones, and someone who is dishonest in a small matter is also dishonest in large ones.
10 He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
11 So if you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who is going to trust you with the real thing?
11 If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?
12 And if you haven't been trustworthy with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what ought to belong to you?
12 And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?
13 No servant can be slave to two masters, for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can't be a slave to both God and money."
13 No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
14 The P'rushim heard all this, and since they were money-lovers, they ridiculed him.
14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
15 He said to them, "You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!
15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
16 Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in.
16 The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the Torah to become void.
17 But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
18 Every man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and a man who marries a woman divorced by her husband commits adultery.
18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
19 "Once there was a rich man who used to dress in the most expensive clothing and spent his days in magnificent luxury.
19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
20 At his gate had been laid a beggar named El`azar who was covered with sores.
20 And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
21 He would have been glad to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table; but instead, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.
21 Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
22 In time the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Avraham's side; the rich man also died and was buried.
22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
23 "In Sh'ol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham far away with El`azar at his side.
23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
24 He called out, `Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El`azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I'm in agony in this fire!'
24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
25 However, Avraham said, `Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his conso lation here, while you are the one in agony.
25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
26 Yet that isn't all: between you and us a deep rift has been established, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
27 "He answered, `Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,
27 And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
28 where I have five brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared having to come to this place of torment too.'
28 For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
29 But Avraham said, `They have Moshe and the Prophets; they should listen to them.'
29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
30 However, he said, `No, father Avraham, they need more. If someone from the dead goes to them, they'll repent!'
30 And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
31 But he replied, `If they won't listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won't be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!'"
31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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