Matthew 25:24

A Conservative Version

And the man who received the one talent also having come, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou are a hard man, reaping where thou did not sow, and gathering from where thou did not scatter.

Cross References

Luke 15:29

But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are thou answering back to God? No, will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why did thou make me this way?

Romans 8:7

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

Luke 6:46

And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and not do the things that I say?

Matthew 20:12

saying, These last did one hour, and thou have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

Matthew 7:21

Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.

Matthew 18:24

And when he began to settle, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.

Matthew 25:25

And after being afraid, having gone, I hid thy talent in the ground. Lo, thou have thine own.

Matthew 25:26

But having answered, his lord said to him, Thou evil and lazy bondman, thou knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather from where I did not scatter.

Luke 19:13

And having called ten of his bondmen, he gave them ten minas and said to them, Do business until I come.