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Luke 16:1-18 — The Parable of the Shrewd Manager; Additional Teachings

Luke.16.1-18

¹He also said to the disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, and this man was accused to him of squandering his possessions. ²So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ ³Then the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. ⁴I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management, they may receive me into their own homes.’ ⁵And summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶He said, ‘A hundred baths of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your documents, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’ ⁷Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your documents and write eighty.’ ⁸And the master commended the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd than the sons of light toward their own generation. ⁹And I say to you, for yourselves make friends from the mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it runs out, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. ¹⁰The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is unrighteous in a very little is also unrighteous in much. ¹¹If therefore you have not been faithful with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is true? ¹²And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you ours ? ¹³No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” ¹⁴Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things and were sneering at him. ¹⁵And he said to them, ‘You are the ones who justify yourselves before people, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among people is an abomination before God.’ ¹⁶The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then on the kingdom of God is proclaimed as good news, and everyone is pressing into it. ¹⁷But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of the Law to fall. ¹⁸Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

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4/11/2026

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