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Selected Verse: Luke 16:11 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
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? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
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." |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Who will commit ... - If you are not faithful in the small matters pertaining to this world, if you do not use aright your property and influence, you cannot expect that God will commit to you the true riches of his grace. Men who are dishonest and worldly, and who do not employ the deceitful mammon as they ought, cannot expect to grow in grace. God does not confer grace upon them, and their being unfaithful in earthly matters is evidence that they "would be" also in much greater affairs, and would likewise "misimprove" the true riches.
True riches - The graces of the gospel; the influences of the Spirit; eternal life, or religion. The riches of this world are false, deceitful, not to be trusted Luk 16:9; the treasures of heaven are "true," faithful, never-failing, Mat 6:19-20. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Faithful
Fidelity is, therefore, possible toward the unrighteous mammon. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Who will intrust you with the true riches? - How should God intrust you with spiritual and eternal, which alone are true riches? |
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.