Luke 16:12 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 16:12

And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

KJV

And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

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Commentary

4 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 Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Riches are foreign to us, because they are something beyond nature, they are not born with us, and they do not pass away with us. But Christ is ours, because He is the life of man. Lastly, He came unto His own.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That which is another man’s - Or rather another’s, τῳ αλλοτριω. That is, worldly riches, called another’s: 1. Because they belong to God, and he has not designed that they should be any man’s portion. 2. Because they are continually changing their possessors, being in the way of commerce, and in providence going from one to another. This property of worldly goods is often referred to by both sacred and profane writers. See a fine passage in Horace, Sat. l. ii. s. 2. v. 1

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Hereafter, what the faithful have will be their own property, being no longer on probation, but in secure, undisturbed, rightful, everlasting possession and enjoyment of all that is graciously bestowed on us. Thus money is neither to be idolized nor despised: we must sit loose to it and use it for God's glory.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
εἰ	ei	if	G1487 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	that which [is]	G3588 →
ἀλλοτρίῳ	allotriō	of another	G245 →
πιστοὶ	pistoi	faithful	G4103 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἐγένεσθε,	egenesthe	you have been,	G1096 →
τὸ	to	that which	G3588 →
ὑμέτερον	humeteron	[is] yours	G4771 →
τίς	tis	who	G5101 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
δώσει;¶	dōsei	will give	G1325 →

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

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The walk

The walk5

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
Job 1:21
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
  As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- 1 Timothy 6:7
  For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18
  Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Job 2:10
  “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

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01Commentary

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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