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And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
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And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.
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I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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Therefore, calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
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But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
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Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.
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And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
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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.
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He 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.
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If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?
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And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?