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  "id": "luke-16-1",
  "source": "Luke",
  "pericope": "The Parable of the Unjust Steward",
  "chapter": 16,
  "verse_start": 1,
  "verse_end": 9,
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "He also said to his disciples,"
    },
    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "“There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.",
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’",
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      "v": 3,
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’",
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    {
      "v": 5,
      "text": "Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’",
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    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "He said, ‘A hundred batos",
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      "v": 6,
      "text": "of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’",
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      "v": 7,
      "text": "Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors",
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    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’",
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      "v": 8,
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      "v": 8,
      "text": "“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.",
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      "v": 9,
      "text": "I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.",
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      "v": 1,
      "text": "And he said also unto his disciples,"
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      "v": 1,
      "text": "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.",
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      "v": 2,
      "text": "And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.",
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    },
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      "v": 3,
      "break": "p"
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      "v": 3,
      "text": "Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.",
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    },
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      "v": 5,
      "text": "So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?",
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    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.",
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    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "break": "p"
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    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "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.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.",
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    }
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  "notes": "",
  "aland_number": 222,
  "epoch": 3,
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  "reference": "Luke 16:1–9",
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