The Unrighteous Steward: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTRE

Luke, Chapter 16, verses 1-18

¹ Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was^areported to him as squandering his possessions. ² And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ ³ The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my^bmaster is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. ⁴ I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’ ⁵ And he summoned each one of his^cmaster’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶ And he said, ‘A hundred^dmeasures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ ⁷ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred^emeasures of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ ⁸ And his^fmaster praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own^gkind than the sons of light. ⁹ And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the^hwealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. ¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteousⁱwealth, who will entrust the true riches to you? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? ¹³ No^jservant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and^kwealth.”

¹⁴ Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves^lin the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable^min the sight of God.

¹⁶ “The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John; since that time the gospel of the kingdom of Godⁿhas been preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. ¹⁷ But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one^ostroke of a letter of the Law to fail.

¹⁸ “Everyone who^pdivorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is^qdivorced from a husband commits adultery.


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