Luke Chapter 16 verse 10 Holy Bible
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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He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
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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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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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He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
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`He who is faithful in the least, `is' also faithful in much; and he who in the least `is' unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - 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. This and the next three verses are closely connected with the parable of the unjust steward. Our Lord no doubt continued speaking, and these four verses contain a general resume of what may be called his reflections on the important piece of teaching he had just delivered. We have here the broad rule, upon which God will decide the soul's future, laid down. If the man has been faithful in his administration of the comparatively unimportant goods of earth, it is clear that he can be entrusted with the far more important things which belong to the world to come. There is, too, in these words a kind of limitation and explanation of the foregoing parable of the unjust steward. The conduct of that steward, regarded in one point of view, was held to be wise, and we, though in a very different way, were advised to imitate it; yet here we are distinctly told that it is fidelity, not unfaithfulness, which will be eventually re-warded - the just, not the unjust steward.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) He that is faithful in that which is least . . .--The context shows that by "that which is least" is meant what men call wealth, and which to most of them seems as the greatest, highest good. To be faithful in that is to acknowledge that we have it as stewards, not as possessors, and shall have to give an account of our stewardship. The word of warning was meant, we may believe, specially for the disciples. They, coming, for the most part, from the poorer classes, thought that they were in no danger of worshipping mammon. They are told, probably with special reference to the traitor Judas, that the love of money may operate on a narrow as well as on a wide scale, and that wrong-doing in the one case tests character not less perfectly than in the other. This seems truer to the meaning of "much" than to find in it simply the higher wealth of the kingdom of God, generically different from the former, though this also may be included in the wider operation of the laws thus asserted.
