One man was rich and had a steward, against whom it was reported to him that he was wasting his property, and calling him, he said to him:
- What am I hearing about you? Give an account of your management, for you can no longer manage.
Then the steward said to himself: “What should I do? My master is taking away the management of the house from me. I can’t dig, I’m ashamed to ask. I know what to do so that they will accept me into their homes when I am removed from managing the house.” And calling his master’s debtors, each one separately, he said to the first:
- How much do you owe my master?
He said:
- One hundred measures of oil.
And he said to him:
- Take your receipt and sit down quickly, write - fifty.
Then he said to another:
- How much do you owe?
He answered:
- One hundred measures of wheat.
And he said to him:
- Take your receipt and write - eighty.
And the lord praised the unfaithful steward for acting wisely, for the sons of this age are wiser than the sons of light in their generation.
And I say to you: make friends for yourself with unrighteous wealth, so that when you become poor, they will receive you into eternal abodes. He who is faithful in a little is also faithful in much, and he who is unfaithful in a little is also unfaithful in much. So, if you have not been faithful in unrighteous wealth, who will trust you with what is true? And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to others, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be zealous for one and not care about the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru