Luke 16:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

Luke 16:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 19:13-26
And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. …
Matthew 25:14-29
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. …
Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
1 Peter 1:4-5
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, …
1 Chronicles 29:14-16
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. …

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-18)

We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ’s doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the divine revelation of both these in the gospel is intended to engage and quicken us to the practice of Christian duties, and, as much as any one thing, to the duty of beneficence and doing good to those who…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

11-12. unrighteous mammon--To the whole of this He applies the disparaging term “what is least,” in contrast with “the true riches.”