Matthew 18:25 - Tree of Life Version

²⁵ But since he didn’t have the money to repay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And because he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and his children and everything that he possessed, and payment to be made.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Because the servant didn’t have enough to pay it back, the master ordered that he should be sold, along with his wife and children and everything he had, and that the proceeds should be used as payment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ But since he did not have any way to repay it, his lord ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children, and all that he had, in order to repay it.

Matthew 18:25 Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha saying, “Your servant my husband is dead—you know that your servant feared Adonai. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

And now, though we share the same flesh as our brothers, and our children are just like their children, still we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved but our hands are tied since our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Nehemiah 5:8

I said to them, “As much as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the nations. Now you also are selling your brothers so that they will be sold back to us?” Then they became silent and could not find anything to say.

Exodus 21:2

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go free, without payment.

Exodus 22:3

If the item is found in his hand alive—whether ox, donkey or sheep—he is to pay double.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says Adonai: “Where is the divorce certificate, by which I sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? See, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Leviticus 25:39

“If your brother has grown poor among you and sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave labor.

Matthew 18:24

When he had begun to settle up, a man was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

Luke 7:42

When neither could repay him, he canceled both debts. So which of them will love him more?”