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Luke 16:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

So the master called him and said 'What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.'

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I tell you that for every careless thing that men say, they must answer on the 'Day of Judgment.'

In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward 'Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first.

But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?'

"Who, then," replied the Master, "is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?

Jesus said to his disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.

'What am I to do,' the steward asked himself, 'now that my master is taking the steward's place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.

For I have been informed, my Brothers, by the members of Chloe's household, that party feeling exists among you.

Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.

Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait till the Lord comes. He will throw light upon what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in men's minds; and then every one will receive due praise from God.

For at the Bar of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions--whether good or worthless.

Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.

There are some men whose sins are conspicuous and lead on to judgment, while there are others whose sins dog their steps.

Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God.

But they will have to answer for their conduct to him who is ready to judge both the living and the dead.

And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books.




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