The Right Use of Wealth

"I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of wealth so that when they're gone you'll be welcomed into eternal homes."

Jesus Christ in the Gospel according to St. Luke, International Standard Version

"And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations."

Jesus Christ in the Gospel according to St. Luke, King James Version

Mammon of unrighteousness

"Mammon of unrighteousness is not spoken of goods that are gotten wrongly, for God will have our bountifulness to the poor proceed and come from a good fountain: but he calls those things riches of iniquity which men use wickedly."

Geneva Study Bible

Receivers to everlasting habitations

"The poor Christians will be the ones to receive us into everlasting habitations: for they are the inheritors of these habitations."

Geneva Study Bible

Function of the use unrighteous mammon

"Money is not here made the key to heaven, more than "the deeds done in the body" in general, according to which, as a test of character - but not by the merit of which - men are to be judged."

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary