Luke 16:8

A Conservative Version

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:5

Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light

Luke 16:10

The man faithful in the least is faithful also in much, and the man unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.

John 12:36

While ye have the light, believe in the light, so that ye may become sons of light. Jesus spoke these things, and after departing, he was hid from them.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God are visible, and the children of the devil. Every man not doing righteousness is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother.

Luke 16:4

I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management they may receive me into their houses.

Exodus 1:10

Come, let us deal craftily with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when war happens, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yea, has God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Luke 20:34

And having answered, Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry, and are given in marriage,

Psalm 17:14

from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very sly man.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.

Luke 18:6

And the Lord said, Hear ye what the unrighteous judge says.

Matthew 17:26

And Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Therefore the sons are free.

2 Kings 10:19

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests. Let none be lacking, for I have a great sacrifice [to do] to Baal. Whoever shall be lacking, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlet

Matthew 12:32

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in the present age, nor in the one that is coming.

Luke 16:7

Next he said to another, And how much do thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he says to him, Receive thy document, and write eighty.

Luke 20:35

but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

Proverbs 12:8

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.