The King James Version Bible

Luke 16:8-21

  1. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

  2. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

  3. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

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

  5. And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

  6. 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.

  7. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

  8. And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  9. The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

  10. And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

  11. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

  12. There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

  13. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

  14. And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.