Luke 19:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ The first servant came and said, ‘Sir, I earned ten bags of money {\cf2\super [301]} with the one bag you gave me!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The first one came before him, and he said, Lord, your mina has made ten [additional] minas.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And the first came before him, saying, Lord, thy pound hath made ten pounds more.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The first servant came forward and said, ‘Your money has earned a return of one thousand percent.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Now the first approached, saying: 'Lord, your one pound has earned ten pounds.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the first came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

Luke 19:16 Cross References

Luke 19:13

So he called ten of his servants together. He gave a bag of money {\cf2\super [300]} to each servant. The man said, ‘Do business with this money until I come back.’

Luke 19:15

“But the man became king. When he came home, he said, ‘Call those servants that have my money. I want to know how much more money they earned with it.’

Luke 19:17

The king said to the servant, ‘Fine! You are a good servant. I see that I can trust you with small things. So now I will let you rule over ten of my cities!’

1 Corinthians 15:10

But, because of God’s grace (gift), that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)