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And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
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I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
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And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?
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And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.
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Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.
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And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.
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And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.
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He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
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and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?