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¹He said also to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man, who had a manager. The same was accused to him of wasting his possessions.

²He called him, and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.`

³The steward said within himself, `What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don`t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

⁴I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.`

⁵Calling each one of his lord`s debtors to him, he said to the first, `How much do you owe to my lord?`

⁶He said, `A hundred batos of oil.` He said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.`

⁷Then said he to another, `How much do you owe?` He said, `A hundred cors of wheat.` He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.`

⁸His lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely, for the sons of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the sons of the light.

⁹I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

¹⁰He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is unrighteous in a very little is also unrighteous in much.

¹¹If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

¹²If you have not been faithful in that which is another`s, who will give you that which is your own?

¹³No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren`t able to serve God and mammon."