Luke 16:1

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Summary

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

A certain

Matthew 18:23

Matthew 25:14

A steward

Wasted

Bible References

A certain

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, who would make a reckoning with his servants.

For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

A steward

and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of their substance.

And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house,

And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that served the king by course, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, unto Jerusalem.

Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

Wasted

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I kept laid up in a napkin:

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.