Luke 16:11 - Plain English Version

¹¹ So if you cheat when you handle money and other things of this world, God will not trust you to look after his very special things.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [case of] unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), who will entrust to you the true riches?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Common English Bible

¹¹ If you haven’t been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true?

Luke 16:11 Cross References

Matthew 6:24

And Jesus told them another picture story. He said, “You can’t work for 2 bosses at the same time. If you try to do that, then you will only like one boss, and you will always work properly for him. But you will not like the other boss, and you will never work properly for him. You see, you can’t have God as your boss, and money as your boss, both at the same time.”

Luke 16:12

And if you don’t look after other people’s things properly, God will not give you things for yourself.

Luke 16:9

This is what you can learn from that story. Use your money now to help people that need money, and then later, after you die, and you haven’t got any money, God will say, ‘Good on you. Come and live with me for ever.’ ”

Ephesians 3:8

I’m not important. All of God’s people are more important than me. But God was good to me, and he gave me this special job. He sent me to tell the people that are not Jews about the really great things that Jesus Christ can give them. These things are so great that nobody can understand them properly.

James 2:5

Listen to me, my good Christian friends. God picks out poor people, and he helps them to trust him properly. He promises to give them a good place in his family. He promises that to everybody that loves him. In the end those poor people will be really rich.