The Parables of Jesus
70. Unjust Steward
Revised Standard Version
Last Revised: 5/14/00
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16:1-8
1 He also said to the disciples, 
"There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.  2 And he called him and said to him, `What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.'  3 And the steward said to himself, `What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.'  5 So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my master?  6 He said, `A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, `Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.  7 Then he said to another, `And how much do you owe?' He said, `A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, `Take your bill, and write eighty.'  8 The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing  with their own generation than the sons of light."
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