Luke 12:45

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“But what will happen if that servant is evil and thinks his master will not come back soon? He will begin to beat the other servants, men and women. He will eat and drink until he has had too much.

Cross References

Revelation 18:24

You are guilty of the death of the prophets, of God’s holy people, and of all those who have been killed on earth.”

Revelation 16:6

The people have spilled the blood of your holy people and your prophets. Now you have given those people blood to drink. This is what they deserve.”

2 Peter 2:19

These false teachers promise those people freedom, but they themselves are not free. They are slaves to a mind that has been ruined by sin. Yes, people are slaves to anything that controls them.

2 Peter 2:13

They have made many people suffer. So they themselves will suffer. That is their pay for what they have done. They think it is fun to do evil where everyone can see them. They enjoy the evil things that please them. So they are like dirty spots and stains among you—they bring shame to you in the meals you eat together.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

People who sleep, sleep at night. People who drink too much, drink at night.

2 Corinthians 11:20

I say this because you are even patient with someone who forces you to do things and uses you. You are patient with those who trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face!

Romans 16:18

People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only pleasing themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool those who don’t know about evil.

Matthew 22:6

Some of the other people grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them.

Ezekiel 34:8

The Lord GOD says, “I swear that wild animals will catch my sheep, and my people will become food for all those animals because they did not have any real shepherds. My shepherds did not look out for my flock. They did not feed my flock. No, they only killed the sheep and fed themselves!”

Ezekiel 12:22

“Son of man, why do people quote this saying about the land of Israel: ‘Trouble will not come soon; what is seen in visions will not come’?

Jeremiah 20:2

he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten. And he had Jeremiah’s hands and feet locked between large blocks of wood. This was at the Upper Gate of Benjamin of the Lord’s Temple.

Isaiah 65:6

“Look, here is a letter that lists all your sins. I will not be quiet until I pay you back for these sins. I will do it by punishing you.

Deuteronomy 12:12

Come to that place with all your people—your children, all your servants, and the Levites living in your towns. (These Levites will not have a share of the land for their own.) Enjoy yourselves together there with the Lord your God.

Luke 12:44

I can tell you without a doubt, the master will choose that servant to take care of everything he owns.

Luke 12:46

Then the master will come when the servant is not ready, at a time when the servant is not expecting him. Then the master will punish that servant and send him away to be with the other people who don’t obey.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful not to spend your time having parties and getting drunk or worrying about this life. If you do that, you won’t be able to think straight, and the end might come when you are not ready.

John 2:10

and said to him, “People always serve the best wine first. Later, when the guests are drunk, they serve the cheaper wine. But you have saved the best wine until now.”

Acts 2:18

In those days I will pour out my Spirit on my servants, men and women, and they will prophesy.

Job 24:23

They might feel safe and secure, but God is watching how they live.