Luke 16:1-13
New American Standard Bible
The Unrighteous Manager
16 Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was [a]reported to him as (A)squandering his possessions. 2 And he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 3 And the manager said to himself, ‘What am I to do, since my [b]master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to [c]dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.’ 5 And he summoned each one of his [d]master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred [e]jugs of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred [f]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 And his [g]master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of (B)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own [h]kind than the (C)sons of light. 9 And I say to you, (D)make friends for yourselves by means of the [i](E)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it [j]is all gone, (F)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
10 “(G)The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and the one who is unrighteous in a very little thing is also unrighteous in much. 11 Therefore if you have not [k]been faithful in the use of unrighteous [l](H)wealth, who will entrust the true wealth to you? 12 And if you have not [m]been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? 13 (I)No [n]servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and [o](J)wealth.”
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- Luke 16:1 Or accused
- Luke 16:3 Or lord
- Luke 16:3 I.e., do manual labor
- Luke 16:5 Or lord’s
- Luke 16:6 Lit baths, a Heb unit of measure equaling about 9 gallons or 34 liters
- Luke 16:7 One kor is about 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters
- Luke 16:8 Or lord
- Luke 16:8 Lit generation
- Luke 16:9 Gr mamonas, for Aramaic mamon (mammon); i.e., wealth, or money
- Luke 16:9 Or fails
- Luke 16:11 Or proved
- Luke 16:11 See note 1 v 9
- Luke 16:12 Or proved
- Luke 16:13 Or house servant
- Luke 16:13 See note 1 v 9
Jeremiah 8:8-21
New American Standard Bible
8 “(A)How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the Law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
9 The wise men are (B)put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have (C)rejected the word of the Lord,
So what kind of wisdom do they have?
10 Therefore I will (D)give their wives to others,
Their fields to new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is (E)greedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest,
Everyone practices deceit.
11 They have (F)healed the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
12 Were they (G)ashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They were not ashamed at all,
And they did not know how to be ashamed;
Therefore they will (H)fall among those who fall;
At the (I)time of their punishment they will collapse,”
Says the Lord.
13 “I will (J)certainly snatch them away,” declares the Lord.
“There will be (K)no grapes on the vine
And (L)no figs on the fig tree,
And the leaf will wither;
And what I have given them will pass away.”’”
14 Why are we sitting still?
(M)Assemble yourselves, and let’s (N)go into the fortified cities
And perish there,
For the Lord our God has doomed us
And given us (O)poisoned water to drink,
Because (P)we have sinned against the Lord.
15 We (Q)waited for peace, but no good came;
For a time of healing, but behold, terror!
16 From (R)Dan there is heard the snorting of his horses;
At the sound of the neighing of his (S)stallions
The whole land quakes;
For they come and (T)devour the land and its fullness,
The city and its inhabitants.
17 “For behold, I am (U)sending serpents among you,
Vipers for which there is (V)no charm;
And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
18 [a]My (W)sorrow is beyond healing,
My (X)heart is faint within me!
19 Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a (Y)distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they (Z)provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign [b](AA)idols?”
20 “Harvest is past, summer is over,
And we are not saved.”
21 I am broken over the (AB)brokenness of the daughter of my people.
I (AC)mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:18 As in LXX and ancient versions
- Jeremiah 8:19 Lit futilities
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