Luke 16:12
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?
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11So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:14Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise all these things to you? All is yours. And so the things that we received from your hand, we have given to you.
Ezekiel 16:16And taking from your garments, you made for yourself exalted things, having sewed together disparate pieces. And you fornicated upon them, in a way that has not been done before, nor will be in the future.
Matthew 25:14For it is like a man setting out on a long journey, who called his servants and delivered to them his goods.
Luke 19:13And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds, and he said to them: ‘Do business until I return.’
1 Peter 1:4unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.
Matthew Henry on Luke 16:2-19
The Unjust Steward. 1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of… Read the whole commentary →