Luke 16:3 - English Majority Text Version 2009

³ "Then the manager said within himself, 'What shall I do? For my master is taking the management away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

Luke 16:3 Cross References

Matthew 20:8

"So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.'

Mark 10:46

And they came to Jericho. And as He was going out from Jericho along with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus the blind man, the son of Timaeus, was sitting alongside the road begging.

Luke 12:17

And he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have nowhere to gather my crops?'

Luke 16:2

And calling him, he said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

Luke 16:20

But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,

Luke 16:22

And it came to pass that the beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

I know what I will do, so that whenever I am removed from the management, they will receive me into their houses.'

Luke 18:4

And he did not want to for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'although I do not fear God, nor have regard for man,

John 9:8

Therefore the neighbors and those who previously saw him, that he was blind, were saying, "Is not this he who sat and begged?"

Acts 3:2

And a man lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they would lay each day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple;

Acts 9:6

"But rise up and enter into the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must do."

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear [that] some are walking among you in a disorderly way, not working at all, but being busybodies.