The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.
Cross References
Matthew 12:32Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
Luke 16:7Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' 'A hundred measures of wheat,' he replied. 'Take your bill and write eighty,' he told him.
Luke 20:34Jesus answered, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
Luke 20:35But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.
John 12:36While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light." After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.
Ephesians 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
1 Thessalonians 5:5For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
Treasury of Scripture
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.
unjust.
Luke 16:10
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.
Luke 18:6
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
done.
Luke 16:4
I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Exodus 1:10
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
children of this.
Luke 20:34
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
Psalm 17:14
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
in.
Psalm 49:10-19
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others…
Matthew 17:26
Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
children of light.
John 12:36
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1 Thessalonians 5:5
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
