Luke 16:1

World Messianic Bible British Edition

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Cross References

Genesis 15:2

Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 43:19

They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

1 Chronicles 28:1

David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valour, to Jerusalem.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Hosea 2:8

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Matthew 20:8

“When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

Luke 12:42

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

Luke 15:13

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and travelled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

Luke 15:30

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Luke 16:2

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

Luke 19:20

Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

Luke 8:3

and Yochanah, the wife of Kuza, Herod’s steward; Shoshanah; and many others who served them from their possessions.

Titus 1:7

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

James 4:3

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

1 Peter 4:10

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.