Matthew 18:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Since he did not have the money to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters are already enslaved,  but we are powerless  because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’

2 Kings 4:1

One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’

Luke 7:42

Since they could not pay it back,   he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more? ’

Leviticus 25:39

‘If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you,  you must not force him to do slave labour.

Nehemiah 5:8

and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’  They remained silent and could not say a word.

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: Where is your mother’s divorce certificate that I used to send her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was sent away because of your transgressions.

Exodus 21:2

‘When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man  without paying anything.

Exodus 22:3

But if this happens after sunrise, the householder is guilty of bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution. If he is unable, he is to be sold because of his theft.

Matthew 18:24

When he began to settle accounts, one who owed ten thousand talents   was brought before him.