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Luke 16 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Parable of the Shrewd Manager
1 AND he said also to his Disciples: There was a certain rich man that had a bailiff: & he was ill reported of unto him, as he that had wasted his goods.
2 And he called him, and said to him: What hear I this of thee? Render account of thy bailiffship: for now thou canst no more be bailiff.
3 And the bailiff said within him self: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the bailiffship? Dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed.
4 I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the bailiffship, they may receive me into their houses.
5 Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debters, he said to the first: How much doest thou owe my lord?
6 But he saith: An hundred pipes of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down, quickly write fifty.
7 After that he said to an other: But thou, how much doest thou owe? Who said: An hundreth quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.
8 And the lord praised the bailiff of iniquity, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world, are wiser than the children of light in their generation.
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