Luke 16:11
Good News Translation
If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth?

New Revised Standard Version
If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Contemporary English Version
If you cannot be trusted with this wicked wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

New American Bible
If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

in.

Luke 16:9 And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

true.

Luke 12:33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

Luke 18:22 Which when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee. Sell all whatever thou hast and give to the poor: and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.

Proverbs 8:18,19 For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. . . .

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Context
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
10He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is unjust also in that which is greater. 11If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true? 12And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?…
Cross References
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:9
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

Luke 16:12
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

Luke 16:10
Top of Page
Top of Page