World English Bible
Luke 16:6
“He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.”
Verse in context — Luke 16
4
I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.
5
Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?
6
He said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.
7
Then he said to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.
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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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