Luke 16:11 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 16:11

So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

KJV

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Letter 121, Chapter 6 (420)

You proposed a little question about the Gospel of Luke (Chapter 16, verse 1 et seq.): Who is the steward of iniquity who is praised by the voice of the Lord? When I wanted to know the reason for this and from which source it came, I examined the volume of the Gospel, and I found among other things that, as the tax collectors and sinners approached the Saviour to hear him, the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "Why does this one receive sinners and eat with them?" (Luke 15:2).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But spiritual and eternal riches are our own (they enter into the soul that becomes possessed of them) and inseparably; they are a good part that will never be taken away from us. If we make Christ our own, and the promises our own, and heaven our own, we have that which we may truly call our own.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Who will commit ... - If you are not faithful in the small matters pertaining to this world, if you do not use aright your property and influence, you cannot expect that God will commit to you the true riches of his grace. Men who are dishonest and worldly, and who do not employ the deceitful mammon as they ought, cannot expect to grow in grace. God does not confer grace upon them, and their being unfaithful in earthly matters is evidence that they “would be” also in much greater affairs, and would likewise “misimprove” the true riches.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
ἀδίκῳ	adikō	unrighteous	G94 →
μαμωνᾷ	mamōna	wealth	G3126 →
πιστοὶ	pistoi	faithful	G4103 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐγένεσθε,	egenesthe	you have been,	G1096 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἀληθινὸν	alēthinon	true [riches]	G228 →
τίς	tis	who	G5101 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
πιστεύσει;	pisteusei	will entrust?	G4100 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 16:9
I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
leads to
- Matthew 19:21
  Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
leads to
- Matthew 5:3
  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Luke 6:20
  Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 2:9
  I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
- 1 Corinthians 1:26–28
  Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.
Through
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
leads to
- Acts 4:34–35
  There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,
- Luke 18:22
  On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- Acts 2:45
  Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke