November 6, 2015

15:14	But I am also certain about you, my brothers, that you also have been filled with love, completed with all knowledge, so that you are able to admonish one another.
15:15	But I have written to you, brothers, more boldly than to the others, as if calling you to mind again, because of the grace which has been given to me from God,
15:16	so that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, sanctifying the Gospel of God, in order that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and may be sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
15:17	Therefore, I have glory in Christ Jesus before God.
15:18	So I dare not speak of any of those things which Christ does not effect through me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and deed,
15:19	with the power of signs and wonders, by power of the Holy Spirit. For in this way, from Jerusalem, throughout its surroundings, as far as Illyricum, I have replenished the Gospel of Christ.
15:20	And so I have preached this Gospel, not where Christ was known by name, lest I build upon the foundation of another,
15:21	but just as it was written: “Those to whom he was not announced shall perceive, and those who have not heard shall understand.”

16:1	And he also said to his disciples: “A certain man was wealthy, and he had a steward of his estate. And this man was accused to him of having dissipated his goods.
16:2	And he called him and said to him: ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship. For you can no longer be my steward.’
16:3	And the steward said within himself: ‘What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I am not strong enough to dig. I am too ashamed to beg.
16:4	I know what I will do so that, when I have been removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’
16:5	And so, calling together each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my lord?’
16:6	So he said, ‘One hundred jars of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your invoice, and quickly, sit down and write fifty.’
16:7	Next, he said to another, ‘In truth, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘One hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your record books, and write eighty.’
16:8	And the lord praised the iniquitous steward, in that he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent with their generation than are the sons of light.