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And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods.
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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 thou mayest be no longer steward.
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Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.
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I am resolved what to do, that when I am removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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So he called every one of his lord's debtors, and said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?
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And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take thy bill, 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. And he said to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.
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And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
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And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
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He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust 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 man'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 the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
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And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.
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And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.
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The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
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And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than one tittle of the law to fail.
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Whoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and whoever marrieth her that is put away from [her] husband, committeth adultery.