Luke Chapter 16 verse 4 Holy Bible
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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I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.
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I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
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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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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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I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - I am resolved what to do. The first part of the parable teaches, then, this great and all-important lesson to men - that they will do well to provide against the day of dismissal from life. The second part points out very vividly how kindness, charity, beneficence, towards those poorer, weaker, more helpless than ourselves is one way, and that a very sure and direct way, cf. so providing against the inevitable dissmission, or death.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) I am resolved what to do.--More literally, I know, or even, I knew, as of a man to whom a plan occurs suddenly. The dramatic abruptness of the parable leaves us uncertain who "they" are that are to "receive" him. The context that follows immediately supplies the deficiency. What answers to this, in the interpretation, is the moment when a Church or party or an individual teacher, halts between two policies--one that of striving after righteousness, and the other of secular expediency--and makes up its mind to adopt that which promises the most immediate and most profitable results.
