1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou may no longer be steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5 So he called each one of his lord’s debtors unto him and said unto the first, How much dost thou owe unto my lord? 6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light. 9 And I say unto you, Make friends unto yourselves with the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when these fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.
10 He that is faithful with little is faithful also with much, and he that is unjust with little is unjust also with much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.