Luke Chapter 16 verse 11 Holy Bible
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true `riches'?
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If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?
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If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
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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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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - The unrighteous mammon. As above in the parable, "mammon" signifies money. The epithet "unrighteous" is used in the same sense as in ver. 9, where we read of the "mammon of unrighteousness."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon.--Better, if ye were not, or, became not. Here the "true riches" stand in contrast with the vain, deceitful, unrighteous mammon, and answer to the true spiritual wealth of peace, pardon, wisdom, or, in St. Paul's language, here again coloured by St. Luke's, the "unsearchable riches of Christ" (Ephesians 3:8). Our Lord teaches His disciples, what human religious teachers have so often forgotten, that honesty, integrity, and, as implied in faithfulness, benevolence, in the use of this world's goods, be our portion small or great, is an indispensable condition of all spiritual advancement.The Greek word for "true" may be noticed as being that which is generally characteristic of St. John. (See Notes on John 1:9; John 4:23.) This is the only instance of its use in the three first Gospels; St. Paul uses it once (1Thessalonians 1:9), and then, after companionship with St. Luke. It is found in three passages of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 8:2; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 9:24; Hebrews 10:22) twenty-three times in the writings of St. John. . . .
