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Luke 16:13
No servant can. serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God. and mammon.
No servant can. serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God. and mammon.
Verse Luke 16:13. _NO SERVANT CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS_] The heart will be either wholly taken up with God, or wholly engrossed with the world. Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24....
See the notes at Matthew 6:24....
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. ...
THE RIGHT USE OF MONEY. Lk. only, except Luke 16:13 (= Matthew 6:24), which is brought in by the verbal link mammon. The note here is fidelity. There is some connexion with Luke 16:1 in the subject pr...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
Jesus said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward. He received information against the steward which alleged that he was dissipating his goods. He called him, and said to him, 'What...
SERVANT. domestic household servant. Greek. _oiketes._ Occurs only here; Acts 10:7. Rom 14:4. 1 Peter 2:18. CAN. isable to. SERVE. do bondservice. Greek. _douleuo._ As in Luke 15:29. MASTERS. lor
_No servant can serve two masters_ God requires a whole heart and an undivided service. "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ," Galatians 1:10."Whosoever...will be the friend of...
Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of Tolerance._ This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΟἸΚΈΤΗΣ … ΔΟΥΛΕΎΕΙΝ. No _domestic_ can _slave_, &c. ΔΥΣῚ ΚΥΡΊΟΙΣ. God requires a whole heart and an undivided service. “If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ,” Galatians...
Luke 16:1-13. THE UNJUST STEWARD...
Ver 8. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9. And I say to you, Make to your...
_THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD -- LUKE 16:1-13:_ The parable of the unjust steward is the most difficult parable in the gospels. The steward had wasted his Lord's money, either deliberately or acc...
ΟΊΚΈΤΗΣ (G3610) раб, слуга. Имеется в виду вся прислуга, работающая в доме (TLNT, 1:384). ΔΟΥΛΕΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G1398) попадать в рабство, быть рабом. _Inf._ дополняет гл. _Praes....
NO SERVANT CAN SERVE, &C.— "Beware of indulging even the least degree of covetousness, for it is absolutely inconsistent with piety; insomuch that a man may as well undertake at one and the same time...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Be Shrewd (Luke 16:1-13) 16 He also said to the disciples, There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2A...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward Scripture_ Luke 16:1-18 And he said unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him...
_NO SERVANT CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS: FOR EITHER HE WILL HATE THE ONE, AND LOVE THE OTHER; OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE, AND DESPISE THE OTHER. YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON._ No JFB commentary on t...
LUK_17:1 13 Compare Mat_6:24; Gal_1:10; Jam_4:4. 13 God wants the wholehearted service of His slaves. This is not possible where other motives than His glory, or other objects than His exaltation ar...
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illust...
See on Matthew 6:24....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
NO SERVANT CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. — See Notes on Matthew 6:24. Here it obviously comes in close connection with the previous teaching. But its occurrence, in an equally close sequence, in the Sermon o...
These verses contain not so much an application as a _corrective_ of the parable. They may have been added by Lk. (so J. Weiss in Meyer, and Holtzmann, H. C.) to prevent misunderstanding, offence, or...
_Application of the parable_. There is room for doubt whether Luke 16:8 should form part of the parable (or at least as far as φρονίμως ἐποίησεν), or the beginning of the application. In the one case...
THE RIGHT USE OF MONEY Luke 16:1-13 We are all stewards, but how much we waste! Well might our Master deprive us of our post and trust! The unjust steward used his opportunity of ingratiating himself...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
(3) No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (3) No man can love...
_No servant can serve two masters, &c. This is added to shew us, that to dispose of our riches according to the will of the Almighty, it is necessary to keep our minds free from all attachment to them...
CHAPTER 13 THE UNJUST STEWARD Luke 16:1-13. “ _And He continued to speak to His disciples_, _There was a certain rich man who had a steward_, _and he was falsely accused to him as wasting his goods_...
1 _st. Luke 16:1-13_. _The Unjust Steward._ Is there a connection between this lesson on riches and the preceding? The formula ἔλεγε δὲ καί, _and He said also_ (Luke 16:1), seems to indicate that ther...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
“ _He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much._ 11. _If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mam...
(1) And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. (2) And he called him, and said unto him, Ho...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
NO SERVANT CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS,.... Matthew 6:24....
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Ver. 13. See Matthew 6:2...
_No servant can serve two masters_ See note on Matthew 6:24. As if he had said, You cannot be faithful to God, if you trim between him and the world; if you do not serve him alone. Beware, therefore,...
GOD AND MAMMON; Matthew 6:24....
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
13-18 To this parable our Lord added a solemn warning. Ye cannot serve God and the world, so divided are the two interests. When our Lord spoke thus, the covetous Pharisees treated his instructions w...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:24"....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quae cum ita se habeant, vitii erat depulsio atque expurgatio, in medium apostolorum circumactio uxoris, cujus dicebatur laborare zelotypia: et continentia a v...
Luke 16:13 No G3762 servant G3610 can G1410 (G5736) serve G1398 (G5721) two G1417 masters G2962 for...
“No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Jesus then caps His argume...
THE PARABLE OF THE ASTUTE STEWARD (16:1-13). Jesus now tells a parable about an astute but careless estate manager who is failing to do his job properly. It is reported that he is ‘wasting' his lord's...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
The _second_ division of the discourse (chaps, Luke 10:1 to Luke 17:10), addressed _to the disciples._ The parable it contains presents great difficulties to the interpreter ; although the sense of th...
SERVANT (οικετης). Household (οικος) servant. This is the only addition to Matthew 6:24 where otherwise the language is precisely the same, which see. Either Matthew or Luke has put the λογιον in t...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
NO SERVANT CAN BE THE SLAVE OF TWO MASTERS. See note on Matthew 6:24....
_Faithful in that which is least_ ON LIVING TO GOD IN SMALL THINGS 1. Notice how little we know concerning the relative importance of events and duties. We use the terms “great” and “small “ in spe...
MAMMON, THE MONEY-GOD Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13. There was once a good knight called Sir Guyon, who was sent by his queen to a far country to deliver the people from the enchantment...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:13 YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY. See note on Matt. 6:24. “Money” is personified here in parallel with “God,” indicating that money can often be an idol....
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:1. AND HE SAID ALSO.—This implies that there is a certain, though perhaps not very close, connection between the discourse in this chapter and that which precedes it. The chap...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; James 4:4; Joshua 24:15; Luke 11:23;...
Servant [ο ι κ ε τ η ς]. Properly, household servant. Serve. See on minister, Matthew 20:26. The other. See on Matthew 6:24. Hold to. See on Matthew 6:24....
And you cannot be faithful to God, if you trim between God and the world, if you do not serve him alone. Matthew 6:24....
Observe here,. twofold master spoken of, God and the world. God is our Master by creation, preservation, and redemption; he has appointed us our work, and secured us our wages; the world is become our...