Luke 16:11

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

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?

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

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?

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

¹ And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. ² And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer. ³ And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed. ⁴ I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. ⁵ Therefore, calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? ⁶ But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. ⁷ Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty. ⁸ And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. ⁹ And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings. ¹⁰ He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is unjust also in that which is greater.

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
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Exodus 3:7
And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Exodus 3:9
For the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have seen their affliction, wherewith they are oppressed by the Egyptians.

1 Samuel 1:20
And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.

Job 38:41
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Psalms 22:24
(21-25) Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John.

Luke 1:31
Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

Luke 1:63
And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his name. And they all wondered.

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.