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Luke 16:12

And if in the other’s you did not become faithful—who will give to you your own?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

In Context

11if, then, in the unrighteous wealth you did not become faithful—who will entrust to you the true?

13No servant is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; you are not able to serve God and wealth.”

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:14indeed, because who [am] I, and who [are] my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? But the whole [is] from You, and we have given to You out of Your [own] hand;

Ezekiel 16:16And you take from your garments, || And make spotted high-places for yourself, || And go whoring on them, || They are not coming in—nor will it be!

Matthew 25:14For—as a man going abroad called his own servants, and delivered to them his substance,

Luke 19:13and having called ten servants of his own, he gave ten minas to them and said to them, Do business—until I come;

1 Peter 1:4to an incorruptible inheritance, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved for you in the heavens,

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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