No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Luke 16:13

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Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own?

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."

Luke 16:10-15

Commentary

Jesus is making a plain distinction between what He desires and how the world acts. It is easy to serve money. It is easy to let our money or our desire for money tell us what to do. Have their been times when we’ve gotten a small blessing and squandered it, only to think to ourselves that we would have done better had we gotten much more. Not so. We were serving money then, and Jesus also says if we are trustworthy or untrustworthy with a little bit, it’ll be the same when we get a lot. Take control now – don’t hold out for more before you start obeying. Money makes you more of who you already are.