Shared Word Translation
Luke 16
The Parable of the Unjust Steward
And he was also saying to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this one was accused to him as wasting his possessions. And calling him, he said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you are no longer able to be steward.’
And the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
And calling each one of his master’s debtors, he was saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill and, sitting down quickly, write fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’
And the master commended the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd toward their own generation than the sons of light. And I say to you, make friends for yourselves from the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
The one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true? And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
No servant is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.”
The Law and the Kingdom
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things and were ridiculing him. And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before people, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among people is an abomination before God.
The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then on the kingdom of God is proclaimed as good news, and everyone is pressing into it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fall.
Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from a husband commits adultery.
The Rich Man and Lazarus
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, feasting splendidly every day. And a certain poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores, and desiring to be fed from what was falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
And it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades, lifting up his eyes, being in torment, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in his bosom.
And calling out, he said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.
And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those wanting to pass from here to you are not able, nor can they cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father’s house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
But Abraham says, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”