“Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe?’

“‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.

“‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write eighty.’

“The master praised the unrighteous manager(A) because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age(B) are more shrewd than the children of light(C) in dealing with their own people.[a] And I tell you, make friends(D) for yourselves by means of worldly wealth[b](E) so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:8 Lit own generation
  2. 16:9 Lit unrighteous money, also in v. 11

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