Luke 16:1-5
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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?’
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Luke 16:7-10
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7 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred [a]kors of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8 And his [b]master complimented the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of (A)this age are more shrewd in relation to their own [c]kind than the (B)sons of light. 9 And I say to you, (C)make friends for yourselves by means of the [d](D)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it [e]is all gone, (E)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.
10 “(F)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.
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