Luke 16:12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?

English Standard Version
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

New American Standard Bible
"And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

King James Bible
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?

International Standard Version
And if you haven't been faithful with what belongs to foreigners, who will give you what is your own?

American Standard Version
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?

Darby Bible Translation
and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

Young's Literal Translation
and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:1-12 Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour. This steward wasted his lord's goods. And we are all liable to the same charge; we have not made due improvement of what God has trusted us with. The steward cannot deny it; he must make up his accounts, and be gone. This may teach us that death will come, and deprive us of the opportunities we now have. The steward will make friends of his lord's debtors or tenants, by striking off a considerable part of their debt to his lord. The lord referred to in this parable commended not the fraud, but the policy of the steward. In that respect alone is it so noticed. Worldly men, in the choice of their object, are foolish; but in their activity, and perseverance, they are often wiser than believers. The unjust steward is not set before us as an example in cheating his master, or to justify any dishonesty, but to point out the careful ways of worldly men. It would be well if the children of light would learn wisdom from the men of the world, and would as earnestly pursue their better object. The true riches signify spiritual blessings; and if a man spends upon himself, or hoards up what God has trusted to him, as to outward things, what evidence can he have, that he is an heir of God through Christ? The riches of this world are deceitful and uncertain. Let us be convinced that those are truly rich, and very rich, who are rich in faith, and rich toward God, rich in Christ, in the promises; let us then lay up our treasure in heaven, and expect our portion from thence.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. another man's … your own—an important turn to the subject. Here all we have is on trust as stewards, who have an account to render. Hereafter, what the faithful have will be their own property, being no longer on probation, but in secure, undisturbed, rightful, everlasting possession and enjoyment of all that is graciously bestowed on us. Thus money is neither to be idolized nor despised: we must sit loose to it and use it for God's glory.