When the evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward: Call the laborers, and, beginning with the last, pay them their hire even to the first.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him from their means.

And he called him, and said to him: What is this that I hear of you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer act as steward.

I am resolved on what I shall do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, I may be received into their houses.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he acted prudently. For the children of this age are more prudent toward their generation than the children of light.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, an apostolic stewardship has been intrusted to me.

but is under guardians and managers till the time appointed by the father.

if, indeed, you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God, which was given to me for your benefit,

of which I was made a minister according to the commission from God, which was given to me for you, that I might fully preach the word of God,

to Titus, my true son, according to the common faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.