Luke 16:8

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And the lord praised the bailiff [or the farmer] of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

But the serpent was feller or more sly than all living beasts of [the] earth, which the Lord God had made. The which serpent said to the woman, Why commanded God to you, that ye should not eat of each tree of paradise?

2 Samuel 13:3

But there was a friend to Amnon, Jonadab by name, the son of Shimeah, the brother of David; and Jonadab was a full prudent [or a full sly] man.

2 Kings 10:19

Now therefore call ye to me all the prophets of Baal, and all his servants, and all his priests; none be that come not, for great sacrifice is of me to Baal; whoever shall fail to come, he shall not live. Forsooth Jehu did this by treason, that he should destroy all the worshippers of Baal.

Psalm 17:14

from the enemies of thine hand. Lord, part thou them from a few men of the land in the life of them; their womb is [full-]filled of thine hid things. They be [full-]filled with sons; and they left their remnants, either residue, to their little children.

Exodus 1:10

come ye, wisely oppress we it, lest peradventure it be multiplied; and lest, if battle riseth against us, it be added to our enemies, and go out of the land, when we be overcome.

Proverbs 12:8

A man shall be known by his teaching; but he that is vain and heartless, shall be open to despising.

Matthew 12:32

And whoever saith a word against man’s Son, it shall be forgiven to him; but who that saith a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven to him, neither in this world, nor in the tother.

Matthew 17:26

And he said, Of aliens. Jesus said to him, Then sons be free.

Luke 16:10

He that is true [or faithful] in the least thing, is true [or faithful] also in the more; and he that is wicked in a little thing, is wicked also in the more.

Luke 16:4

I know what I shall do, that when I am removed from the bailiffship [or from the farm], they receive me into their houses.

Luke 16:7

Afterward he said to another, And how much owest thou? Which answered, An hundred cors [or measures] of wheat. And he said to him, Take thy letters, and write fourscore.

Luke 18:6

And the Lord said, Hear ye, what the doomsman of wickedness saith;

Luke 20:34

And Jesus said to them, Sons of this world wed, and be given to weddings;

Luke 20:35

but they that shall be had worthy of that world, and of the rising again from death, neither be wedded, nor wed wives,

John 12:36

While ye have light, believe ye in the light, that ye be the children of light. Jesus spake these things, and went, and hid him from them.

1 Corinthians 3:18

No man deceive himself. If any man among you is seen to be wise in this world, be he made a fool, that he be wise.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were sometime darknesses, but now ye be light in the Lord. Walk ye as the sons of light.

Philippians 3:19

whose end is death, whose god is the womb, and the glory in [the] confusion of them, that savour [or that understand] earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For all ye be the sons of light, and sons of [the] day; we be not of night, neither of darknesses.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye be a chosen kin [or ye be a kind chosen], a kingly priesthood, holy folk, a people of purchasing, that ye tell the virtues of him, that called you from darknesses into his wonderful light.

1 John 3:10

In this thing the sons of God be known, and the sons of the fiend. Each man that is not just, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother [is not of God].