mnt - Luke:16:1-15

mnt@Luke:16:1 @ To his disciples he said. "There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to him of wasting his property.

mnt@Luke:16:2 @ "He called to him to him and said. "What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.

mnt@Luke:16:3 @ "Now the steward said to himself. What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my stewardship? I am not strong enough to dig, to beg I am ashamed.

mnt@Luke:16:4 @ "I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of my stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

mnt@Luke:16:5 @ "So he called to him each of his masters debtors and said to the first, How much money do you owe my master?

mnt@Luke:16:6 @ "A hundred measures of oil, he answered. "He said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty."

mnt@Luke:16:7 @ "To a second he said, How much do you owe? "The man answered, A hundred measures of wheat. "Here is you bill, he said, change it to eighty measures.

mnt@Luke:16:8 @ "And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

mnt@Luke:16:9 @ "And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

mnt@Luke:16:10 @ "The man who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is unjust in a very little, is unjust also as much.

mnt@Luke:16:11 @ "If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will trust to you the true riches?

mnt@Luke:16:12 @ "And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

mnt@Luke:16:13 @ "No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."

mnt@Luke:16:14 @ Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

mnt@Luke:16:15 @ He said to them. "You are those that justify themselves in the eyes of men; but God knows you hearts; for that which is lofty in the eyes of men is abomination in the eyes of God.