16 ¹ He said to his disciples, 'There was a rich man who had a steward, and he received complaints that this man was squandering the property. 16 ² So he sent for him, and said, "What is this that I hear? Produce your accounts, for you cannot be manager here any longer." 16 ³ The steward said to himself, "What am I to do now that my employer is dismissing me? I am not strong enough to dig, and too proud to beg. 16 ⁴ I know what I must do, to make sure that, when I have to leave, there will be people to give me house and home." 16 ⁵ He summoned his master's debtors one by one. To the first he said, "How much do you owe my master?" 16 ⁶ He replied, "A thousand gallons of olive oil." He said, "Here is your account. Sit down and make it five hundred; and be quick about it." 16 ⁷ Then he said to another, "And you, how much do you owe?" He said, "A thousand bushels of wheat", and was told, "Take your account and make it eight hundred," 16 ⁸ And the master applauded the dishonest steward for acting so astutely. For the worldly are more astute than the other-worldly in dealing with their own kind.
16 ⁹ 'So I say to you, use your worldly wealth to win friends for yourselves, so that when money is a thing of the past you may be received into an eternal home.

16 ¹⁰ 'The man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted also in great; and the man who is dishonest in little things is dishonest also in great things. 16 ¹¹ If, then, you have not proved trustworthy with the wealth of this world, who will trust you with the wealth that is real? 16 ¹² And if you have proved untrustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
16 ¹³ 'No servant can be the slave of two masters; for either he will hate the first and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and think nothing of the second. You cannot serve God and Money.'