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If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
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A Test of Faithfulness
Commentators unanimously see this verse as a core principle: how a person manages worldly wealth (“unrighteous mammon”) is a direct indicator of their trustworthiness for spiritual blessings (“true riches”). Faithfulness in the temporary things of this world is a prerequisite for being entrusted with the eternal things of God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Who will commit, etc. If you are not faithful in the small matters pertaining to this world, if you do not use your property and influence…
Faithful in the unrighteous mammon (εν τω αδικω μαμωνα). In the use of what is considered "unrighteous" as it so often is. Conditi…
19th Century
Anglican
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon.—Better, if ye were not, or, became not. Here …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon; in the disposing of it to improper uses, which was eit…
Whatever we have, its property belongs to God; we only have the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honor. This st…