Bible verse

Luke 16:11

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

Luke 16:11 · BSB

Luke 16:11 in context

The verses around it, from Luke 16.

7 Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.

10 Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

11 So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

12 And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?

13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

15 So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

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Luke 16:11 in other translations

KJV

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?

ASV

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches ?

ERV

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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