Luke 16:4
Good News Translation
Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.'

New Revised Standard Version
I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’

Contemporary English Version
I know what I'll do, so that people will welcome me into their homes after I've lost my job."

New American Bible
I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

Proverbs 30:9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

James 3:15 For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.

Context
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
3And 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. 4I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?…
Cross References
Luke 16:3
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.

Luke 16:5
Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

Luke 16:9
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.

Luke 16:3
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