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NASB					Luke 16:8 "And his ¹master²⁹⁶² praised¹⁸⁶⁷ the unrighteous⁹³ manager³⁶²³ because³⁷⁵⁴ he had acted⁴¹⁶⁰ shrewdly⁵⁴³⁰; for the sons⁵²⁰⁷ of ^Athis³⁷⁷⁸ age¹⁶⁵ are more⁵⁴²⁹ shrewd⁵⁴²⁹ in relation¹⁵¹⁹ to their own¹⁴³⁸ ²kind¹⁰⁷⁴ than⁵²²⁸ the ^Bsons⁵²⁰⁷ of light⁵⁴⁵⁷.
AMPLIFIED 2015					Luke 16:8 "And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers].

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Or lord

Lit generation

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Matt 12:32 "Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

John 12:36 "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." ¶ These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

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Greek Heb.

adikia; from 94; injustice, unrighteousness:--doing wrong(1), evildoers(1), iniquities(1), iniquity(2), injustice(1), unrighteous(2), unrighteousness(12), wickedness(4), wrong(1).

165

aiôn; from a prim. root appar. mean. continued duration; a space of time, an age:--age(20), ages(6), ancient time(1), beginning of time(1), course(1), eternal(2), eternity(1), ever*(2), forever(27), forever and ever(20), forevermore(2), long ago(1), never*(1), old(1), time(1), world(7), worlds(1).

1074

genea; from 1096; race, family, generation:--generation(32), generations(10), kind(1).

1438

heautou; from a prim. pron. he (him, her) and gen. (dat. or acc.) of 846; of himself, herself, itself:--aside*(1), conscious*(1), each other(2), herself(4), himself(91), itself(12), mind(1), none*(1), one another(13), oneself(1), ourselves(19), own(48), own estimation(2), own initiative(3), own persons(1), own...himself(1), senses(1), themselves(44), venture*(1), within*(1), yourselves(32).

1519

eis; a prim. prep.; to or into (indicating the point reached or entered, of place, time, fig. purpose, result):--about(1), against(18), among(10), become*(5), before(2), before*(1), benefit(1), bestowed(1), beyond(1), beyond*(2), bring about(1), bring*(1), continually*(1), eliminated*(2), end(2), even(1), ever*(2), forever*(1), forward*(3), leading(2), leads(1), mine*(1), never*(1), next*(1), onto(2), over(1), perpetually*(1), reference(2), regard(3), relation(1), respect(2), result(3), resulted(2), resulting(10), sake(1), so(34), throughout(3), toward(23), until(4), view(3), why*(4).

1867

epaineô; from 1909 and 134; to praise:--praise(5), praised(1).

2962

kurios; from kuros (authority); lord, master:--lord(10), Lord(626), Lord of lords(2), Lord's(12), lords(1), master(38), master's(3), masters(8), masters'(1), owner(6), owners(1), sir(11), sirs(1).

3623

oikonomos; from 3624 and nemô (to manage); the manager of a household:--manager(3), managers(1), steward(2), stewards(3), treasurer(1).

3754

hoti; conjunc. from neut. of 3748; that, because:--because(212), fact(3), how(2), saying(1), since(10), so(1), then(1), though(1), what(1).

3778

houtos,
hautê,
touto; prob. from a redupl. of 3588, used as a demonstrative pron.; this:--afterward*(3), especially(1), fact(2), follow*(1), here*(1), hereafter*(1), man(1), now*(1), one(2), one whom(1), partly*(1), person(1), present(1), same(1), so(1), so then*(1), so*(1), some(2), such(2), therefore*(16), these(179), these...things(1), these men(10), these people(1), these things(192), this(737), this man(56), this man's(2), this one(4), this reason*(1), this thing(2), this way(1), this woman(4), this*(1), this...thing(1), those(2), those things(1), very(3), very thing(2), who(2), whom(1).

4160

poieô; a prim. word; to make, do:--accomplished(1), act(4), acted(3), acting(1), acts(2), appointed(3), away*(1), bear(5), bearing(1), bears(3), become(1), bore(1), bring(1), bring...to pass(1), bring about(2), bringing(1), brings forth(1), call(1), carried(1), carries(1), carry(1), cause(3), causes(2), causing(1), commit(2), commits(2), committed(4), composed(1), consider(1), created things(1), dealt(1), did(33), did...do(2), do(170), does(16), does...do(1), doing(38), done(43), establishing(1), execute(4), exercises(1), expose*(1), formed(1), formed a conspiracy(1), forms(1), gave(4), give(4), gives(1), giving(1), have(2), have kept(1), having(1), held(1), indulging(1), keep(3), keeps(1), kept(1), made(38), make(47), makes(7), making(9), observe(2), offer(1), offering(1), perform(4), performed(8), performing(7), performs(1), practice(5), practices(11), practicing(1), present(1), proceeding(1), produce(3), produced(1), produces(2), producing(1), provide(1), put(1), satisfy*(1), setting(1), show(2), showed(1), shown(1), spend(1), spent(4), took(1), treat(6), treated(1), weaker(1), worked(1), working(1).

5207

huios; a prim. word; a son:--attendants(3), foal(1), man(1), son(1), son(307), sons(68).

5228

huper; a prim. prep.; over, beyond, fig. on behalf of, for the sake of, concerning:--about(5), above(4), behalf(22), beyond(4), concerning(3), exceed(1), more so(1), more than(5), over(2), regard(1), sake(9), sakes(1), than(3).

5429

phronimos; from 5426; practically wise, sensible:--more shrewd(1), prudent(5), sensible(2), shrewd(1), wise(4), wise men(1).

5430

phronimôs; adv. from 5429; sensibly:--shrewdly(1).

5457

phôs; cont. of phaos (light, daylight); from the same as 5316; light:--fire(1), firelight(1), light(68), lights(2).

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