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And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
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And he called him and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship, for thou may no longer be steward.
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Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord takes the stewardship away from me; I cannot dig,
and I am ashamed to beg.
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I know what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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So he called each one of his lord’s debtors
unto him and said unto the first, How much dost thou owe unto my lord?
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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
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Then said he to another, And how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.
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And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done discreetly; for the sons of this age are in their generation more prudent than the sons of light.
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And I say unto you, Make friends unto yourselves with the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when these fail, you may be received into eternal dwellings.