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The Prudent Steward

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The Prudent Steward
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  • Luke 16:1-13
  • 1 And He said also to the disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and this one was accused to him of squandering his possessions.
  • 2 And he called him and said to him, What is this I hear concerning you? Render the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.
  • 3 And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, because my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
  • 4 I know what I will do so that when I am removed from the stewardship they may receive me into their own houses.
  • 5 And when he had called to him each one of his master's debtors, he said to the first, How much do you owe my master?
  • 6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
  • 7 Then to another he said, And you, how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He said to him, Take your bill and write eighty.
  • 8 And the master praised the unrighteous steward because he had acted prudently; for the sons of this age are more prudent in their dealings with their own generation than the sons of light.
  • 9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
  • 10 He who is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
  • 11 If therefore you have not become faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is true?
  • 12 And if you have not become faithful in that which belongs to another, who will give to you that which is your own?
  • 13 No household servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • And he called ten of his own slaves and gave them ten minas, and he said to them, Do business until I come (Luke 19:13)
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