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1 Jesús les contó esta parábola a sus discípulos: «Un hombre rico tenía un administrador al que acusaron de estarle malgastando sus bienes.
1 He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
2 Entonces lo llamó y le dijo: “¿Qué es eso que me dicen de ti? Prepárame un informe de tu administración, porque ya no puedes seguir siendo mi administrador”.
2 He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
3 El administrador se puso a pensar: “¿Qué voy a hacer ahora que mi patrón ya no quiere que sea su administrador? No tengo fuerzas para cavar, y me da vergüenza pedir limosna.
3 “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
4 Ya sé lo que voy a hacer para que cuando me quiten el trabajo haya gente que me reciba en sus casas”.
4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
5 »Llamó a cada uno de los que le debían algo a su patrón. Al primero le preguntó: “¿Cuánto le debes a mi patrón?”.
5 Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
6 Este le contestó: “Cien barriles de aceite”. El administrador le dijo: “Toma tu factura, siéntate, date prisa y escribe cincuenta”.
6 He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
7 Después le preguntó al segundo: “Y tú, ¿cuánto le debes?”. Él contestó: “Cien bultos de trigo”. El administrador le dijo: “Toma tu factura y anota ochenta”.
7 Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
8 »El patrón felicitó al administrador porque hizo las cosas con astucia. Es que la gente de este mundo es más astuta en su trato con los que también son de este mundo, que los que han recibido la luz.
8 “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
9 Por eso yo les aconsejo que usen las riquezas de este mundo para ganar amigos y así, cuando esas riquezas se les acaben a ustedes, los reciban en las viviendas eternas.
9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
10 »El que es honesto en lo poco, también es honesto en lo mucho; y el que no es honesto en lo poco, tampoco será honesto en lo mucho.
10 He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
11 Por eso, si ustedes no son honestos con las riquezas de este mundo, ¿quién les confiará las riquezas verdaderas?
11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 Si no son honrados con lo que no es de ustedes, ¿quién les dará lo que les pertenece a ustedes?
12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
13 »Nadie puede ser sirviente de dos patrones, porque despreciará a uno y amará al otro. Nadie puede servir al mismo tiempo a Dios y a las riquezas».
13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
14 Los fariseos oían todas estas cosas y se burlaban de Jesús porque a ellos les gustaba mucho el dinero.
14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
15 Jesús les dijo: «Ustedes se hacen pasar por buenos delante de la gente, pero Dios conoce sus corazones. Les digo que aquello que la gente piensa que tiene mucho valor para Dios es despreciable.
15 He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
16 »La ley y los profetas se anunciaron hasta Juan. Desde entonces, se anuncian las buenas nuevas del reino de Dios, y todos se esfuerzan por entrar en él.
16 “The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
17 Pero es más fácil que desaparezcan el cielo y la tierra, que deje de cumplirse una sola tilde de la ley.
17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.
18 »Todo hombre que se divorcia de su esposa y se casa con otra, comete adulterio; y el que se casa con la divorciada, también comete adulterio.
18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
19 »Había un hombre rico que se vestía con ropas muy lujosas y a diario hacía fiestas donde servían espléndidos banquetes.
19 “Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
20 Junto a la puerta de su casa se sentaba un mendigo llamado Lázaro. Tenía la piel cubierta de llagas
20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
21 y hasta los perros se las lamían. A él le habría gustado llenarse el estómago con lo que caía de la mesa del rico.
21 and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 »Un día, el mendigo murió y los ángeles lo llevaron junto a Abraham. El rico murió también y lo enterraron.
22 The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 En el infierno, en medio de sus tormentos, el rico vio a lo lejos a Abraham, y a Lázaro junto a él.
23 In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
24 Entonces lo llamó a gritos: “Padre Abraham, ten compasión de mí. Manda a Lázaro a que moje la punta de su dedo en agua y me refresque la lengua, porque estoy sufriendo mucho en este fuego”.
24 He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
25 »Pero Abraham le respondió: “Hijo, recuerda que cuando ustedes vivían, a ti te fue muy bien pero a Lázaro muy mal. Ahora a él le toca recibir consuelo aquí y a ti te toca sufrir.
25 “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.
26 Además, entre ustedes y nosotros hay un gran abismo, y nadie puede venir de allá para acá ni ir de aquí para allá”.
26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
27 »El rico, le dijo: “Padre Abraham, entonces te suplico que mandes a Lázaro a la casa de mi padre,
27 “He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
28 para que avise a mis cinco hermanos, y no vengan ellos también a este lugar de tormento”.
28 for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
29 Pero Abraham le replicó: “Ellos ya tienen a Moisés y a los profetas: ¡que les hagan caso!”.
29 “But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
30 »Entonces el hombre rico respondió: “No les harán caso, padre Abraham. Pero si algún muerto fuera y se les presentara entonces sí se arrepentirán”.
30 “He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
31 Abraham le dijo: “Si no le hacen caso a Moisés y a los profetas, tampoco le harán caso a alguien que se levante de entre los muertos”».
31 “He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”
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Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Peter 4:10; Matthew 25:14–30; 1 Corinthians 4:1–2; Luke 12:42; James 4:3
- 2 1 Samuel 2:23–24; Ecclesiastes 11:9–10; Revelation 20:12; 1 Peter 4:5; 2 Corinthians 5:10
- 3 Proverbs 27:23–27; Jeremiah 5:31; Luke 18:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:11; Proverbs 21:25–26
- 4 James 3:15; Jeremiah 4:22; Proverbs 30:9
- 5 Luke 7:41–42; Matthew 18:24
- 6 Titus 2:10; Luke 16:12; Luke 16:9
- 7 Luke 20:9; Luke 20:12; Song of Songs 8:11–12
- 8 1 Thessalonians 5:5; Ephesians 5:8; John 12:36; Proverbs 6:6–8; Luke 16:10
- 9 Matthew 19:21; 1 Timothy 6:17–19; Daniel 4:27; Matthew 6:24; Proverbs 19:17
- 10 Luke 16:11–12; Matthew 25:21; Luke 19:17; Matthew 25:23; Hebrews 3:2
- 11 Luke 12:33; Proverbs 8:18–19; James 2:5; Ephesians 3:8; Luke 18:22
- 12 Luke 19:13–26; Job 1:21; Matthew 25:14–29; 1 Chronicles 29:14–16; 1 Peter 1:4–5
- 13 1 John 2:15–16; Matthew 6:24; James 4:4; Romans 8:5–8; Luke 14:26
- 14 Luke 23:35; Luke 12:15; Luke 20:47; Isaiah 56:11; Matthew 23:13
- 15 Proverbs 21:2; 1 Samuel 16:7; 1 Corinthians 4:5; Jeremiah 17:10; Proverbs 16:5
- 16 Matthew 11:9–14; Matthew 21:32; Acts 3:24–25; Matthew 3:2; John 1:45
- 17 Matthew 5:18; Luke 21:33; 1 Peter 1:25; Isaiah 40:8; Romans 3:31
- 18 Matthew 19:9; Mark 10:11–12; Matthew 5:31–32; 1 Corinthians 7:10–12; 1 Corinthians 7:4
- 19 Ezekiel 16:49; Luke 18:24–25; Amos 6:4–6; James 5:1–5; Ezekiel 27:7
- 20 Acts 3:2; James 2:5; Job 2:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 34:19
- 21 Matthew 15:27; Mark 7:28; John 6:12; 1 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 11:27
- 22 1 Peter 2:24; Psalm 49:16–19; Revelation 14:13; James 1:11; Matthew 18:10
- 23 2 Peter 2:4; Luke 16:28; Matthew 23:33; Matthew 18:9; Revelation 14:10–11
- 24 Revelation 22:1; John 4:10; John 4:14; Revelation 7:16–17; Matthew 25:41
- 25 Luke 6:24; 1 John 2:15; Psalm 17:14; Mark 9:45; Philippians 3:19
- 26 John 3:36; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 50:22; Malachi 3:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:4–10
- 28 Acts 2:40; Psalm 49:12–13; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Acts 20:23
- 29 Acts 15:21; Luke 16:16; Luke 24:27; 2 Timothy 3:15–17; 2 Peter 1:19–21
- 30 Revelation 16:9–11; Luke 16:24; Luke 3:8; Luke 13:5; Luke 13:3
- 31 2 Corinthians 4:3; Acts 28:23; John 11:43–53; Acts 19:8; John 12:10–11
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Our duty is to give to others the admonitions we have received ourselves. The recent lesson of the Gospel has admonished us to make friends of the mammon of iniquity, that they too may "receive" those who do so "into everlasting habitations." But who are they that shall have everlasting habitations, but the Saints of God?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
… exhibits Abraham as having said to the rich man, with reference to all those who were still alive: "If they do not obey Moses and the prophets, neither, if any one were to rise from the dead and go to them, will they believe him."
These are little things, but "He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much." Nor can that possibly be void which proceedeth out of the mouth of Thy Truth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
And this I say, not that we may omit supplicating the saints, but to hinder our being careless, and entrusting our concerns to others only, while we fall back and slumber ourselves. For so when He said, "make to yourselves friends," he did not stop at this only, but He added, "of the unrighteous mammon;" that so again the good …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For how can a man become the one servant of two masters, when our Lord says in the Gospels, No man can serve two masters?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)