Text copied!
CopyCompare
The New Testament with Commentary - Luke - Luke 16

Luke 16:8-18

Help us?
Click on verse(s) to share them!
8The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light.
9“I even say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that whenever you fail, they may receive you into the eternal dwellings!
10He 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.
11If therefore you have not been faithful with the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the genuine?
12And if you have not been faithful in what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?
13No servant can serve two masters; 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!”
14Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were also listening to all these things, and they were ridiculing Him.
15So He said to them: “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. That which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.
16The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the Kingdom of God is being proclaimed, and every one is trying to force his way into it.
17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the Law to fail.
18“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Read Luke 16Luke 16
Compare Luke 16:8-18Luke 16:8-18