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I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.
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Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith unto him, Take thy bond, and write fourscore.
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And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
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And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
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He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.
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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?
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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
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No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.