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And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods.

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And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship for thou canst be no longer steward.

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And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I have not strength to dig to beg I am ashamed.

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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.

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And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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The law and the prophets [were] until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.

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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.