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Luke 16:2

Weymouth NT

He called him and said, »`What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, for I cannot let you hold it any longer.'

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But I tell you that for every careless word that men shall speak they will be held accountable on the day of Judgement.

When evening came, the master said to his steward, »`Call the men and pay them their wages. Begin with the last set and finish with the first.'

»But God said to him,« `Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations–for whom shall they be?'

»Who, then,« replied the Lord, »is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times?

He said also to His disciples: »There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.

»Then the steward said within himself,« `What am I to do? For my master is taking away the stewardship from me. I am not strong enough for field labour: to beg, I should be ashamed.

So we see that every one of us will give account of himself to God.

For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

This being so, it follows that fidelity is what is required in stewards.

Therefore form no premature judgements, but wait until the Lord returns. He will both bring to light the secrets of darkness and will openly disclose the motives that have been in people's hearts; and then the praise which each man deserves will come to him from God.

For we must all of us appear before Christ's judgement-seat in our true characters, in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be worthless.

Do not be careless about the gifts with which you are endowed, which were conferred on you through a divine revelation when the hands of the elders were placed upon you.

The sins of some men are evident to the world, leading the way to your estimate of their characters, but the sins of others lag behind.

Whatever be the gifts which each has received, you must use them for one another's benefit, as good stewards of God's many-sided kindness.

But they will have to give account to Him who stands ready to pronounce judgement on the living and the dead.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing in front of the throne. And books were opened; and so was another book–namely, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged by the things recorded in the books in accordance with what their conduct had been.




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