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Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.", "citation": "Luke 16:2 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 3, "text": "And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.", "citation": "Luke 16:3 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 4, "text": "I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.", "citation": "Luke 16:4 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 5, "text": "Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?", "citation": "Luke 16:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.", "citation": "Luke 16:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.", "citation": "Luke 16:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.", "citation": "Luke 16:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.", "citation": "Luke 16:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is unjust also in that which is greater.", "citation": "Luke 16:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?", "citation": "Luke 16:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?", "citation": "Luke 16:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.", "citation": "Luke 16:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.", "citation": "Luke 16:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.", "citation": "Luke 16:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it.", "citation": "Luke 16:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fall.", "citation": "Luke 16:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.", "citation": "Luke 16:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.", "citation": "Luke 16:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,", "citation": "Luke 16:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.", "citation": "Luke 16:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.", "citation": "Luke 16:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:", "citation": "Luke 16:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.", "citation": "Luke 16:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.", "citation": "Luke 16:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither.", "citation": "Luke 16:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,", "citation": "Luke 16:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.", "citation": "Luke 16:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.", "citation": "Luke 16:29 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 30, "text": "But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.", "citation": "Luke 16:30 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 31, "text": "And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.", "citation": "Luke 16:31 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }