11 If you haven’t been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
12 If you haven’t been faithful with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?
13 No household servant can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."
14 The Pharisees, who were money-lovers, heard all this and sneered at Jesus.
15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before other people, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued by people is deeply offensive to God.
16 Until John, there was only the Law and the Prophets. Since then, the good news of God’s kingdom is preached, and everyone is urged to enter it.
17 It’s easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest stroke of a pen in the Law to drop out.