Matthew 25:24

Conservative English Version

The servant who had been given one thousand coins then came in and said, "Sir, I know that you are hard to get along with. You harvest what you don't plant and gather crops where you haven't scattered seed.

Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Jeremiah 2:31

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, "We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!"

Matthew 18:24

As he was doing this, one official was brought in who owed him fifty million silver coins.

Matthew 20:12

They said, "The ones who were hired last worked for only one hour. But you paid them the same that you did us. And we worked in the hot sun all day long!"

Matthew 25:25

I was frightened and went out and hid your money in the ground. Here is every single coin!"

Matthew 25:26

The master of the servant told him, "You are lazy and good-for-nothing! You know that I harvest what I don't plant and gather crops where I haven't scattered seed.

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who calls me their Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven. Only the ones who obey my Father in heaven will get in.

Luke 15:29

But he said to his father, "For years I have worked for you like a slave and have always obeyed you. But you have never even given me a little goat, so that I could give a dinner for my friends.

Luke 19:13

But before leaving, he called in ten servants and gave each of them some money. He told them, "Use this to earn more money until I get back."

Luke 6:46

Why do you keep on saying that I am your Lord, when you refuse to do what I say?

Romans 8:7

Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws.

Romans 9:20

But, my friend, I ask, "Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?