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Luke 16:12

If you have not been faithful in using other people's property, who will give you money of your own?

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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 you have not been faithful in using unrighteous wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly these things? Indeed, all things come from you, and we have simply given back to you what is yours.

Ezekiel 16:16Then you took your clothes and with them you made high places for yourself decorated in various colors, and there you acted like a prostitute. This should not have happened. Nor should such a thing exist.

Matthew 25:14For it is like when a man was about to go into another country. He called his own servants and gave over to them his wealth.

Luke 19:13He called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Conduct business until I come back.'

1 Peter 1:4This is for an inheritance that will not perish, will not become stained, and will not fade away. It is reserved 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 →

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