Luke 16:11

So if you can't be trusted when it comes to worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

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In The King James Version

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

In Context

10If you can be trusted with very little you can also be trusted with much; if you are dishonest with very little you will also be dishonest with much.

12And if you can't be trusted with what belongs to someone else, who will trust you with what is yours?

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Cross References

Luke 12:33Sell what you have, and give the money to the poor. Get yourselves purses that don't wear out: treasure in heaven that will never run out, where no thief can steal it and no moth can destroy it.

Luke 18:22When Jesus heard this he told the man, “You still lack one thing. Go and sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me!”

James 2:5Listen, my dear friends: Didn't God choose those who the world considers poor to be rich in their trust in him, and to inherit the kingdom he promised to those who love him?

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 →

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