And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last even unto the first.

and Joanna the wife of Chuzas the steward of Herod, and Susanna, and many other women, who were accustomed to minister unto Him from those things belonging to them.

And having called him, he said to him, What is this which I hear concerning thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou art not able to be steward any longer.

I know what I shall do, in order that when I am deposed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he acted shrewdly: because the sons of this age are wiser in their generation than the sons of the light.

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if unwillingly, I have been intrusted with a dispensation.

whose minister I became, according to the economy of God which was given to me unto you, to fulfill the word of God,

to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.