Luke 16
1 And 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.
耶稣向门徒讲了一个故事：“从前有个财主，有人指控他的管家浪费主人的财物。
2 And 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.
主人把管家叫来，对他说：‘我听说了关于你的事情，怎么会这样？把你管的账目拿来，你不能再做管家了。’
3 And 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.
管家心想：‘主人不让我继续做管家，我又该做什么呢？去锄地没有力气！去讨饭又太羞耻了！
4 I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
对了，我知道该做什么了。这样做，如果我不再当管家，就会有人让我去他们家做工。’
5 And 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?
于是他找来欠他主人债的人。他问第一个人：‘你欠我主人多少？’
6 And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.
那人说：‘一百桶油。’管家说：‘那快坐下来，拿着你的欠条，把它改成五十桶。’
7 Then 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.
他又问另外一人：‘你欠多少？’那人说：‘一百包麦子。’管家说：‘给你欠条，改成八十包。’
8 And 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. (aiōn g165)
他的主人夸奖了这位不诚实的管家，称他做事机警，因为现世之子在对待彼此的时候，比光之子更狡诈。 (aiōn g165)
9 And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles. (aiōnios g166)
我告诉你们，用现世的财富去结交你的朋友，这样当你失去钱财后，就可以进入永恒之家。 (aiōnios g166)
10 He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
如果你在极小的事情上可以获得信任，大事也是如此。如果你在极小的事情上不诚实，大事也会不诚实。
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
如果你在现世财富方面不值得信任，谁还会把真实的财富托付给你们？
12 and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?
如果你们对别人的东西不忠心，谁还把自己的东西交给你们呢？
13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
一个仆人不能服侍两个主人，他必会喜欢一人，讨厌另一人，或忠于一人而背离另一人。你们不能同时服侍上帝和金钱。”
14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.
视财如命的法利赛人听见这些话，便开始嘲笑耶稣。
15 And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.
但耶稣对他们说：“你们在人前自称善人，上帝却知道你们在想什么。因为人所看中的，正是上帝所憎恶的。
16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.
律法和先知所写的，持续到约翰为止。此后所传递的就是上帝之国的福音，人人都努力想要挤进上帝之国。
17 But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.
但相比天地终会消散，律法文字中哪怕是最小的一个点，也更不容易消失。
18 Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.
如果你休妻另娶，就犯了奸淫之罪。如果你娶了被休之妻，同样也是犯了奸淫之罪。
19 Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
从前有一个财主很富有，总是身穿紫袍和精致的麻衣，过着奢华无度的日子。
20 And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was laid at his gateway full of sores,
有个满身长疮的乞丐名叫拉撒路，他经常坐在财主门口，
21 and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.
希望用财主饭桌上掉下的残渣充饥，甚至还有狗跑来舔他的疮。
22 And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.
后来乞丐死了，天使们将他送到亚伯拉罕那里。财主也死了，被埋在土里。
23 And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Hadēs g86)
财主在阴间受尽折磨，于是向上望去，看到了亚伯拉罕和他身边的拉撒路。 (Hadēs g86)
24 And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.
于是财主喊着说：‘我父亚伯拉罕啊，可怜可怜我吧！派拉撒路来用手指蘸点水，冰冰我的舌头！我在这火焰炙烤的太难熬了。’
25 But Abraham said, Child, recollect that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and thou art in suffering.
但亚伯拉罕回复道：‘我的孩子，想想你生前享过的福，那时拉撒路过着穷苦的生活。现在他在这里过得很舒适，你就要受苦。
26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.
不仅如此，我们和你们之间还隔着一道深渊，从我这边根本无法去你那边，你们那边也无法到我们这边。’
27 And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,
财主说：‘我父啊，那么求你派拉撒路到我父亲的家里去，
28 for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.
因为我有五个兄弟，他可以警告他们，免得他们最终也到这痛苦之地。’
29 But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.
亚伯拉罕说：‘摩西和先知都在他们那边，你的兄弟应该听他们的。’
30 But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.
财主说：‘不行啊，我父亚伯拉罕。如果出现在他们面前的人是死而复生，他们必定会悔改！’
31 And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among [the] dead will they be persuaded.
亚伯拉罕对他说：‘如果他们不听从摩西和先知的话，就算有人死而复生，他们也不会信服。’”
