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 the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

"For it is like a man, going on a journey, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

A steward

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many others; who provided for them from their possessions.

The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"

They came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

And David assembled all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, and the officers of the companies who served the king by division, and the commanders of thousands, and the commanders of hundreds, and the stewards 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, to Jerusalem.

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Wasted

"Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Another came, saying, 'Lord, look, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

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

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.