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Matthew 18:24

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

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“Whatever you say,” the man replied, “but only the one found with it will become my slave since the rest of you will be free of any blame.”

They gave to the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

I prayed, “My God, I am so ashamed and embarrassed to come and pray to you, my God, because we are in over our heads in sin, and our guilt has risen to the heavens.

I'm drowning in guilt—the burden is too heavy to bear.

For I'm experiencing so many problems—I can't even count them! My sins have piled up so high I can't see over them. They're more than the number of hairs on my head! I feel like giving up!

“This is why the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with those servants who owed him money.

Since he didn't have the money to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all his possessions, so that the debt could be paid back.

To one of them he gave five talents, to another he gave two, and to another one, according to their different abilities. Then he left.

Immediately the one with five talents went and invested them in a business, and made another five talents.

The one with five talents came and presented the other five talents. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘You gave me five talents. Look, I've made a profit of five talents.’

The one with two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘You gave me two talents. Look, I've made a profit of two talents.’

Then the man with one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I know that you're a hard man. You reap where you didn't sow, and you harvest crops that you didn't plant.

What about those eighteen people that were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were the worst people in the whole of Jerusalem?

So he invited all those who were in debt to his master to come and see him. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ The man replied, ‘A hundred units of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and change it to eighty.’




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