Luke 16:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ “Then the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m 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.

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

Esther 6:6

When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for a man whom the king desires to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor rather than me?”

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker’s soul craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent soul will be satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slacker is a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will starve.

Proverbs 20:4

A slacker will not plow in season, so at harvest he looks but finds nothing.

Proverbs 29:21

If someone pampers his slave from childhood in the end he will be ungrateful.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”

Hosea 9:5

What will you do for a moed or for the day of Adonai’s feast?

Matthew 20:8

“Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

Mark 10:46

Then they came to Jericho. Now as Yeshua was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.

Luke 12:17

And he began thinking to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do? I don’t have a place to store my harvest!’

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager and said to him, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

Luke 16:20

But a poor man named Lazarus had been laid at his gate, covered with sores

Luke 16:22

“It happened that the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. Then the rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

I know what I’ll do, so that when I’m put out of management others will welcome me into their homes.’

Luke 18:4

“He was unwilling at the time. But afterward he said to himself, ‘Although I don’t fear God or respect people,

John 9:8

Therefore his neighbors and those who had seen him as a beggar kept saying, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

A man lame from birth was being carried—every day they used to put him at the Temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg for tzadakah from those entering the Temple.

Acts 9:6

But get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some among you are behaving irresponsibly—not busy, but busybodies.