Luke 16:11

Amplified Bible

"Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of earthly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine?

King James Version (1611)
If therefore yee haue not bene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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

English Standard Version
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true wealth to you?

New Century Version
If you cannot be trusted with worldly riches, then who will trust you with true riches?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?

Berean Standard Bible
If, then, you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

Contemporary English Version
If you cannot be trusted with this wicked wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?

Complete Jewish Bible
So if you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who is going to trust you with the real thing?

Darby Translation
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

Easy-to-Read Version
If you cannot be trusted with worldly riches, you will not be trusted with the true riches.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If then ye haue not ben faithful in the wicked riches, who wil trust you in the true treasure?

George Lamsa Translation
If therefore, you are not faithful with the wealth of iniquity, who will believe that there is any truth in you?

Good News Translation
If, then, you have not been faithful in handling worldly wealth, how can you be trusted with true wealth?

Lexham English Bible
If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Literal Translation
Then if you were not faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true to you?

American Standard Version
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Bible in Basic English
If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

Hebrew Names Version
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

International Standard Version
So if you have not been faithful with unrighteous riches,mammon, an Aram. term meaning wealth">[fn] who will trust you with true wealth?with the true">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
If, therefore, in the wealth of unrighteousness you have not been faithful, the truth to you who will confide ?

Murdock Translation
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust to you the reality?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So then, yf ye haue not ben faythfull in the vnryghteous Mammon, who shall trust you in the true treasure?

English Revised Version
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

World English Bible
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust you with the true riches?

Weymouth's New Testament
If therefore you have not proved yourselves faithful in dealing with the wealth that is tainted with fraud, who will entrust to you the true good?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor if ye weren not trewe in the wickid thing of ritchesse, who schal bitake to you that that is verry?

Update Bible Version
If therefore you haven't been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?

Webster's Bible Translation
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true [riches]?

New English Translation
If then you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?

New King James Version
Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

New Living Translation
And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven?

New Life Bible
If you have not been faithful with riches of this world, who will trust you with true riches?

New Revised Standard
If then you have not been faithful with the dishonest wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If therefore, in the unjust Riches ye proved unfaithful, the true, who, unto you, will entrust?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

Revised Standard Version
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
So then yf ye have not ben faithfull in ye wicked mamon? who will beleve you in that which is true?

Young's Literal Translation
if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf ye then haue not bene faithfull in the vnrighteous Mammon, who wyll beleue you in that which is true?

Mace New Testament (1729)
if therefore your fidelity has not appear'd in the use of these transitory enjoyments, how can you be trusted with what is more lasting?

Simplified Cowboy Version
If you are untrustworthy with things of this world, do you think God is going to trust you with the secrets of heaven?

Contextual Overview

¹Now Jesus was also saying to the disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager [of his estate], and accusations [against this man] were brought to him, that this man was squandering his [master's] possessions. ²"So he called him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management [of my affairs], for you can no longer be [my] manager.' ³"The manager [of the estate] said to himself, 'What will I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig [for a living], and I am ashamed to beg. ⁴'I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from the management, people [who are my master's debtors] will welcome me into their homes.' ⁵"So he summoned his master's debtors one by one, and he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' ⁶"He said, 'A hundred measures of [olive] oil.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' ⁷"Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.' ⁸"And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers]. ⁹"And I tell you [learn from this], make friends for yourselves [for eternity] by means of the wealth of unrighteousness [that is, use material resources as a way to further the work of God], so that when it runs out, they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings. ¹⁰"He who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little thing is also dishonest in much.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: Luke 16:9

true: Luke 12:33, Luke 18:22, Proverbs 8:18, Proverbs 8:19, Ephesians 3:8, James 2:5, Revelation 3:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:10 - General 2 Kings 12:15 - for they dealt Matthew 6:24 - mammon Luke 12:21 - rich Luke 16:10 - faithful in 2 Corinthians 6:10 - and 2 Corinthians 8:9 - that ye Colossians 3:2 - not 1 Thessalonians 2:4 - to be 2 Timothy 1:14 - good 2 Peter 2:16 - the madness

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed, and you shall name him Isaac (laughter); and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Exodus 3:7
The LORD said, "I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.

Exodus 3:9
"Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me; and I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them.

1 Samuel 1:20
It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked for him from the LORD."

Job 38:41
"Who provides prey for the raven When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

Psalms 22:24
For He has not despised nor detested the suffering of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He listened.

Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Listen carefully, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel (God with us).

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your petition [in prayer] was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

Luke 1:31
"Listen carefully: you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.

Luke 1:63
And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote as follows, "His name is John." And they were all astonished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If therefore ye have not been faithful,.... This is the application of the above proverbial expressions, and seems to be directed to the disciples of Christ, though not without a view to the covetous Scribes and Pharisees, who were in hearing of it, and were disturbed at it, Luke 16:14 and the meaning is, that whereas some of them might have been unfaithful, and have acted the unjust part of gathering of riches, as Matthew, and other publicans, that were now become the followers of Christ; if therefore they should be unfaithful

in the unrighteous mammon; in the disposing of it to improper uses, which was either unrighteously gotten, and therefore called, as it sometimes was, ממון דרשע, "mammon of ungodliness", or "ungodly mammon" x; or, which was fallacious, deceitful, vain, and transitory:

who will commit to your trust the true riches; or mammon? that is, how should you expect to be intrusted with the riches of grace, as the blessings and promises of the covenant of grace, the graces of the Spirit of God, which truly enrich persons, and are solid and durable? or the riches of glory, the better and more enduring substance in heaven, signified by a kingdom, and an inheritance that fadeth not away? so the Jews call the good things of another world, and say y, that

"all the good things of this world are not טובות אמתיות, "true good things", in comparison of the good things of the world to come.''

And they use the same distinction with respect to "mammon", as here:

"the holy, blessed God, they say z, gives him, של אמת

ממון, "mammon of truth", or true mammon; and he makes it שקר, "false", or deceitful:''

or rather the rich treasure of the Gospel is meant, called a treasure in earthen vessels, and the unsearchable riches of Christ; and is comparable to, and of more worth than gold, silver, and precious stones. And so the Syriac version renders it, "who will trust you with the truth?" with the truth of the Gospel.

x Targum in Hab. ii. 9. y Tzeror Hammor, fol. 23. 2. z Shemot Rabba, sect. 31. fol. 134. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Luke 16:9; the treasures of heaven are “true,” faithful, never-failing, Matthew 6:19-20.