| Geneva Study Bible If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the {c} true riches? (c) That is, heavenly and true riches, which are contrary to material wealth which is worldly and quickly departing. People's New Testament 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful. If one is faithless in an earthly trust, how can he expect to receive a heavenly trust? Wesley's Notes 16:11 Who will intrust you with the true riches? - How should God intrust you with spiritual and eternal, which alone are true riches? King James Translators' Notes mammon: or, riches Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 11, 12. unrighteous mammon-To the whole of this He applies the disparaging term "what is least," in contrast with "the true riches." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 16:1-12 Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour. This steward wasted his lord's goods. And we are all liable to the same charge; we have not made due improvement of what God has trusted us with. The steward cannot deny it; he must make up his accounts, and be gone. This may teach us that death will come, and deprive us of the opportunities we now have. The steward will make friends of his lord's debtors or tenants, by striking off a considerable part of their debt to his lord. The lord referred to in this parable commended not the fraud, but the policy of the steward. In that respect alone is it so noticed. Worldly men, in the choice of their object, are foolish; but in their activity, and perseverance, they are often wiser than believers. The unjust steward is not set before us as an example in cheating his master, or to justify any dishonesty, but to point out the careful ways of worldly men. It would be well if the children of light would learn wisdom from the men of the world, and would as earnestly pursue their better object. The true riches signify spiritual blessings; and if a man spends upon himself, or hoards up what God has trusted to him, as to outward things, what evidence can he have, that he is an heir of God through Christ? The riches of this world are deceitful and uncertain. Let us be convinced that those are truly rich, and very rich, who are rich in faith, and rich toward God, rich in Christ, in the promises; let us then lay up our treasure in heaven, and expect our portion from thence. | 
