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Luke 16:9

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I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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Luke 16:9 in other translations

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.

Luke 16:9 · American Standard Version

Luke 16:9 in context

  1. 7Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
  2. 8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
  3. 9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.
  4. 10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
  5. 11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?