What Does Luke 16:11 Mean in the King James?
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Greek repeats one trust-family: being steady with what you hold and being trusted with what is true are bound together.
THE MEANING
Your handling of material wealth is tied to the question of what can be entrusted to you. The verse places unrighteous mammon beside true riches and asks whether trust with the first can be separated from trust with the second.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that how you handle money is spiritually irrelevant: the verse makes that stewardship part of the question of trust.
THE ROOT
πιστοί
pistoi
GROWS FROM
πείθω
To persuade or win trust; this Greek word family links being trustworthy with placing trust.
“faithful / commit to your trust” in this verse is pistoi. The KJV renders the related words as “faithful” and “commit to your trust,” but Greek repeats the same family: one person is steady, and another can therefore trust them. The verse links stewardship of mammon with being entrusted with true riches through this shared measure.
ALSO GROWS
pistos: Trustworthy, firm, steady.
πιστός
This describes the quality translated “faithful”: steadiness with what is placed in your hands.
pisteuō: To trust or place confidence in.
πιστεύω
This is the verb translated “commit to your trust”; it shows the other side of the same relationship, when someone places trust in you.
THE PATTERN
Trust with what is lesser or held in stewardship reveals whether greater trust can be placed.
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.THE THREAD
And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?The word translated “faithful” comes from the same Greek trust-family as “commit to your trust” in this verse. The next question turns from mammon to what belongs to someone else, extending the same measure of trust across both.
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