Luke 16:1
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Luke 16:1
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Now He was also saying to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and this {manager} was reported to him as squandering his possessions.
Luke 16:2
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~"And he called him and said to him, `What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
Luke 16:3
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~"The manager said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
Luke 16:4
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~`I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes.'
Luke 16:5
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~"And he summoned each one of his master's debtors, and he {began} saying to the first, `How much do you owe my master?'
Luke 16:6
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~"And he said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'
Luke 16:7
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~"Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?' And he said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' He *said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.'
Luke 16:8
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~"And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
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