Matthew 25:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

and I was afraid, so I went away and hid your talent in the ground. Look, you [can] have your own talent [back].’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is your own.

American Standard Version (1901)

and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.

Common English Bible

So I was afraid. And I hid my valuable coin in the ground. Here, you have what’s yours.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, being afraid, I went out and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine.

Matthew 25:25 Cross References

Matthew 25:24

Then the one who was given [only] one talent came and reported, ‘Master, I knew you were a difficult man who reaped where you had not sown, and gathered a harvest where you had not scattered seed,

Matthew 25:26

But his master said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy servant. [Since] you knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not scattered seed,

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive the Holy Spirit, to enslave you again to fear, [Note: Some translators take “Holy Spirit” here to be “spirit,” making the verse say “you did not receive the spirit of slavery”], but you received the Holy Spirit [or, a spirit] by adoption [who produces] sonship, so we can call out, “Abba” [which means] “Father.”

Revelation 21:8

But the place for cowards, and unbelievers, and disgusting people [i.e., because of their terrible sins], and murderers, and sexually immoral people, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will be the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”