Luke 16:1–8

¹And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him as wasting his goods. ²And having called him, he said to him, What is this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward. ³And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses. ⁵And having called to him each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord? ⁶And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty. ⁷Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty. ⁸And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.