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Luke 16:11–12

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16:11If then you haven’t been trustworthy35 in handling worldly wealth,36 who will entrust you with the true riches?3716:12And if you haven’t been trustworthy38 with someone else’s property,39 who will give you your own40?

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Footnotes

  1. 35 Or “faithful.”
  2. 36 Grk “the unrighteous mammon.” See the note on the phrase “worldly wealth” in v. .
  3. 37 Entrust you with the true riches is a reference to future service for God. The idea is like 1 Cor 9:11, except there the imagery is reversed.
  4. 38 Or “faithful.”
  5. 39 Grk “have not been faithful with what is another’s.”
  6. 40 Grk “what is your own.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?

NLTNew Living Translation

And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven? And if you are not faithful with other people’s things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own?

KJV 1900King James Version

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?