Mismanaging Manager

Luke 16.1. And then He was saying to the disciples, “A certain man was wealthy, who had a manager, and this owner brought charges against him because he was squandering the owner’s wealth. 2. Then when he called him he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? You must immediately give back the title of your office, for you are not able to still manage.’ 3. But the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, because my employer is taking away the office from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg. 4. I know what I shall do, so that when I would be deposed from the office they will take me into their homes.’ 5. Then after he summoned each one of his employer’s debtors he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my employer?’ 6. And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil.’ and he said to him, ‘You must take your notes and after you sit down you must quickly write fifty baths.’ 7. Then to another he said, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘You must take your documents and you must now write eighty.’ 8. Then the employer praised the unjust manager; that he did wisely: because the sons of this age are wiser than the sons of the light in their own generation. 9. And I say to you, you must at once make friends for yourselves apart from unrighteous wealth, in order that when it would give out they would take you into the Eternal Dwellings. 10. The one faithful in the least is also faithful in much, and the one unrighteous in the least is also unrighteous in much. 11. If therefore you were not faithful in unrighteous wealth, who will trust the true riches to you? 12. And if you are not faithful in that belonging to another, who will give your property to you? 13. And no house servant is able to serve two masters: for he will either hate the one and will love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and he will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.” (Matt. 6:24)

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.