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2 So he called him in and said to him: ‘What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be manager.’
3 Then the manager said within himself: ‘What shall I do? My master is taking the management away from me. I don’t have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg
4 —I know what I’ll do, so that whenever I am removed from the management they may receive me into their houses.’
5 Summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6 And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil’. So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty’.
7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat’. So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty’.
8 The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light.
9 “I even say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings!
10 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
11 If therefore you have not been faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the genuine?
12 And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon!”