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Selected Verse: Luke 16:11 - King James

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Lu 16:11 King James If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
unrighteous mammon--To the whole of this He applies the disparaging term "what is least," in contrast with "the true riches."
 
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19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.