Luke 16:3-5

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³ “At this, the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do? My master is taking away my stewardship from me! I can’t do manual work, and I’d be ashamed to beg . . .

⁴ “ ‘I have an idea what to do!—so that people will welcome me into their households when I am fired from being steward.’

⁵ “So he called his master’s debtors to him, one by one. ‘How much,’ he asked the first, ‘do you owe my master?’