So the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of light.

And He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

For he shall take nothing when he dies; neither shall his glory descend with him.

[Yet] he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light.

Behold, these [are] the sinners, and they that prosper always; they have possessed wealth.

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

So [is] he who accumulates treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things, but now here he is comforted and you are suffering.

You lived luxuriously upon the earth and you lived riotously, you nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.

Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?

Why do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

Their houses are prosperous, and safe from fear, neither is the rod of the Lord upon them.

And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;

And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

What is the Mighty One, that we should serve Him? And what profit is there that we should approach Him?

Yet He filled their houses with good things, but the counsel for the wicked is far from Him.

and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure having been hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it, he went and sold everything he had, and bought that field."

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

And if their children are many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

Even if he should gather silver as dust, and prepare gold as clay,

Then he said, 'Therefore I beseech you, father, that you would send him to my father's house,

for I have five brothers, so that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'