Luke 16:3 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

³ The steward said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And the manager of the estate said to himself, What shall I do, seeing that my master is taking the management away from me? I am not able to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I have not strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Common English Bible

³ “The household manager said to himself, What will I do now that my master is firing me as his manager? I’m not strong enough to dig and too proud to beg.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the steward said within himself: 'What shall I do? For my lord is taking the stewardship away from me. I am not strong enough to dig. I am too ashamed to beg.

Luke 16:3 Cross References

Matthew 20:8

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.’

Mark 10:46

Then they came to Jericho. Now as Jesus was going out from Jericho, along with his disciples and a large crowd, the blind man Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road begging.

Luke 12:17

So he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I do not have anywhere to store my crops?’

Luke 16:2

So he called the steward in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about yoʋ? Give an account of yoʋr stewardship, for yoʋ can no longer be steward.’

Luke 16:20

There was also a poor man named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, covered with sores.

Luke 16:22

Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side, and the rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

I know what I will do so that when I am removed from my stewardship people will receive me into their homes.’

Luke 18:4

For a while he would not do so, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

John 9:8

Then his neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.

Acts 9:6

But rise and enter the city, and yoʋ will be told what yoʋ must do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some among you are walking in idleness, not working at all, but being busybodies.