Luke 16:1–9

¹He also said to his disciples,“There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was 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.’↗

³“The manager 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 he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’↗

⁸“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children 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.↗