And I say also unto you, Make you friends of the wicked mammon, that when ye shall have need they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold.

Then called he all his master's debtors, and said unto the first, 'How much owest thou unto my master?'

And Jehoash said to the priest, "All the silver that is dedicated and brought to the house of the LORD in current money - that is to say, the money that every man is set at, with all the money that every man's heart giveth him to bring into the house of the LORD -

He that is faithful in that which is least: the same is faithful in much.

And if ye have not been faithful in another man's business: who shall give you your own?

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples together and said, "It is not meet that we should leave the word of God and serve at the tables.

The steward said within himself, 'What shall I do? For my master will take away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig, and to beg, I am ashamed.

Moreover, they reckoned not with the men, into whose hands they delivered that money to be bestowed on workmen: But they did it even of fidelity.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

She considereth land, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

So then if ye have not been faithful in the wicked mammon, who will believe you in that which is true?

And beware that thou say not in thine heart, 'My power and the might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts.'

Let men this wise esteem us, even as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God.

See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.

Through counsel the things that men devise go forward; and with discretion ought wars to be taken in hand.

And his master said unto him, 'Well, good servant and faithful; Thou hast been faithful in little, I will make thee ruler over much: go in into thy master's joy.'

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go and sell the oil and pay thy creditor. And live, thou and thy children, off the rest."

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.

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

For this we eschew, that any man should rebuke us in this plenteous distribution that is ministered by us,

As every man hath received the gift, minister the same one to another as good ministers of the manifold grace of God.

and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty.

She maketh cloth of silk and selleth it, and delivereth a girdle unto the merchant.

And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely. For the children of this world, are in their kind, wiser than the children of light.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

Favour is a deceitful thing, and beauty is vanity; but a woman that feareth God, she shall be praised.

And God hath also ordained in the congregation, first the apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, then them that do miracles; after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues.

Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

I know what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'

And the Lord said, "If there be any faithful servant, and wise, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their duty of meat, at due season:

In those days, as the number of the disciples grew, there arose a grudge among the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were despised in the daily ministration.