Luke 16:1

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.

Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal, and prepare; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.

Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

They came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, the captains of the companies who served the king by division, the captains of thousands, the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.