Luke 16:3

Modern English Version

“Then the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, for my master is taking away the stewardship from me? I cannot dig. I am ashamed to beg.

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that there are some among you who live in idleness, mere busybodies, not working at all.

Acts 3:2

A man lame from birth was being carried, whom people placed daily at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to ask alms from those who entered the temple.

John 9:8

The neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind said, “Is this not he who sat and begged?”

Luke 18:4

“He would not for a while. Yet afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I do not fear God or respect man,

Luke 16:22

“It came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s presence. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:20

There was also a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, who had been placed at his gate,

Luke 12:17

He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have no room to store my crops?’

Mark 10:46

Then they came to Jericho. And as He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat along the way begging.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the appointed day, and on the day of the festival of the Lord?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of punishment and in the desolation which shall come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

Proverbs 29:21

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him as his son in the end.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow in season; he will beg at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts a man into a deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 18:9

He who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Proverbs 15:19

The road of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is a highway.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

Esther 6:6

And Haman entered. Now the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” Haman thought in his heart, “Who more than me would the king desire to honor?”

Acts 9:6

Trembling and astonished, he said, “Lord, what will You have me do?” The Lord said to him, “Rise up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

Matthew 20:8

“So when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with the last to the first.’

Luke 16:2

So he called him and said, ‘How is it that I hear this about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.’

Luke 16:4

I know what to do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, others may receive me into their houses.’