Luke 16:11-12

16:11 If then you haven’t been trustworthy ¹  in handling worldly wealth, ²  who will entrust you with the true riches? ³  16:12 And if you haven’t been trustworthy ⁴  with someone else’s property, ⁵  who will give you your own ⁶ ?

Luke 19:17

19:17 And the king ⁷  said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful ⁸  in a very small matter, you will have authority ⁹  over ten cities.’

Matthew 25:21

25:21 His master answered, ¹⁰  ‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Hebrews 3:2

3:2 who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God’s ¹¹  house. ¹² 

¹ tn Or “faithful.”

² tn Grk “the unrighteous mammon.” See the note on the phrase “worldly wealth” in v. 9.

³ sn Entrust you with the true riches is a reference to future service for God. The idea is like 1 Cor 9:11, except there the imagery is reversed.

⁴ tn Or “faithful.”

⁵ tn Grk “have not been faithful with what is another’s.”

⁶ tn Grk “what is your own.”

⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn See Luke 16:10.

⁹ sn The faithful slave received expanded responsibility (authority over ten cities) as a result of his faithfulness; this in turn is an exhortation to faithfulness for the reader.

¹⁰ tn Grk “His master said to him.”

¹¹ tn Grk “his”; in the translation the referent (God) has been specified for clarity.

¹² tc ‡ The reading adopted by the translation follows a few early mss and some versions (Ì^13,46vid B vg^ms co Ambr). The majority of mss (א A C D Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 Ï lat sy) insert “all” (“in all his house”), apparently in anticipation of Heb 3:5 which quotes directly from Num 12:7. On balance, the omission better explains the rise of ὅλῳ ({olw, “all”) than vice versa. NA²⁷ puts ὅλῳ in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity.