1 Then He also said to the disciples, "There was [a] certain rich person who had [a] house-manager; and this one had been accused before him, [namely] that he had wasted his goods.
2 And having summoned him, he said to him, 'Why do I hear this about you? Hand over the account of your stewardship, for you cannot any longer manage house.'
3 Then the house-manager said to himself, 'What shall I do? For my lord takes away from me the stewardship. I am not strong to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
4 I've realised what I shall do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship, they shall receive me into their houses.'
5 Then, calling each one of the debtors of the lord to himself, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my lord?'
6 And he said, '[A] hundred bats* of oil.' And he said to him, 'Take the records of yours and sitting quickly write, "Fifty."'
7 Thereupon to another he said, 'You, then, how much do you owe?' And he said, '[A] hundred kors* of wheat.' He says to him, 'Take the records of yours and write eighty.'
8 And the lord praised the house-manager for the unrighteousness, because he acted shrewdly, because the sons of this aeon are shrewder than the sons of light, in their own generation.
9 Also* I tell you, 'Make friends for yourselves from the mammon* of injustice, so that when it* fail, they may welcome you into the eternal dwellings!'?*
10 The [person] faithful in [the] smallest [matter] is also faithful in much, and the [person] unjust in [the] smallest [matter] is also unjust in much.
11 If, therefore, you were unfaithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true [wealth] to you?
12 And if you have not been faithful with what [is] another's, who will give to you what [is] your own?
13 No house-servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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18 Anyone who [is] loosing from the wife of his and marrying [an]other commits adultery, and he marrying [a woman] loosed from [her] husband commits adultery.
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Notes
6 Gk. "bátos" from Heb. "bat" (approx. 23 liters).
7 Gk. "kóros" from Heb. "kor" (approx. 230 liters).
9 Or "And". An ancient Semitic term for wealth or similarly anything deemed to have permanent material value. Some witnesses read "you". The Greek text can be read as a question or as a statement.