Luke 16: 1 - 13
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He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.
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And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.'
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And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
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I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'
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So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my master?'
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He said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
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Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?' He said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.'
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The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
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And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.
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"He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
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If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
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No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
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