Luke 16:13
“No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” 1 More Warnings about the Pharisees
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
12And if you were not faithful in what belongs to another, who will give to you what is yours?
Cross References
Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘ You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone you shall serve.’ ”
Luke 9:50But Jesus said to him, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.” 1 A Samaritan Village Rejects the Savior
Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Romans 6:16Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to whom you obey, whether of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
James 4:4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.
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 →