Luke 16:12
And if you can't be trusted with what belongs to someone else, who will trust you with what is yours?
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11So if you can't be trusted when it comes to worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we are able to give as willingly as this? For everything we have comes from you—we are only giving back what you have given us.
Ezekiel 16:16You made yourself colorful pagan shrines out of the clothes I'd given you, and there you acted as a prostitute. Things like this have never happened before, and they should never happen in the future!
Matthew 25:14It's like a man who went away on a trip. He called in his servants and entrusted them with what he owned.
Luke 19:13He called ten of his servants, divided money equally among them, and told them, ‘Invest this money until I return.’
1 Peter 1:4This inheritance is eternal, it never spoils or fades, and it is kept safe in heaven for you.
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 →