Luke 16:1–8

And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.

²And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.

³And 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.

⁴I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

⁵Therefore, calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

⁶But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.

⁷Then 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.

⁸And 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.