Luke 16:3

New Century Version

The manager thought to himself, ‘What will I do since my master is taking my job away from me? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg.

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 3:11

We hear that some people in your group refuse to work. They do nothing but busy themselves in other people’s lives.

Acts 3:2

There, at the Temple gate called Beautiful Gate, was a man who had been crippled all his life. Every day he was carried to this gate to beg for money from the people going into the Temple.

John 9:8

The neighbors and some people who had earlier seen this man begging said, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”

Luke 18:4

For a while the judge refused to help her. But afterwards, he thought to himself, ‘Even though I don’t respect God or care about people,

Luke 16:22

Later, Lazarus died, and the angels carried him to the arms of Abraham. The rich man died, too, and was buried.

Luke 16:20

And a very poor man named Lazarus, whose body was covered with sores, was laid at the rich man’s gate.

Luke 12:17

He thought to himself, ‘What will I do? I have no place to keep all my crops.’

Mark 10:46

Then they came to the town of Jericho. As Jesus was leaving there with his followers and a great many people, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus son of Timaeus was sitting by the road.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do then on the day of feasts and on the day of the Lord’s festival?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets speak lies, and the priests take power into their own hands, and my people love it this way. But what will you do when the end comes?

Isaiah 10:3

How will you explain the things you have done? What will you do when your destruction comes from far away? Where will you run for help? Where will you hide your riches then?

Proverbs 29:21

If you spoil your servants when they are young, they will bring you grief later on.

Proverbs 20:4

Lazy farmers don’t plow when they should; they expect a harvest, but there is none.

Proverbs 19:15

Lazy people sleep a lot, and idle people will go hungry.

Proverbs 18:9

A person who doesn’t work hard is just like someone who destroys things.

Proverbs 15:19

A lazy person’s life is like a patch of thorns, but an honest person’s life is like a smooth highway.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy will not get what they want, but those who work hard will.

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in. And the king asked him, “What should be done for a man whom the king wants very much to honor?” And Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king want to honor more than me?”

Acts 9:6

Get up now and go into the city. Someone there will tell you what you must do.”

Matthew 20:8

“At the end of the day, the owner of the vineyard said to the boss of all the workers, ‘Call the workers and pay them. Start with the last people I hired and end with those I hired first.’

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give me a report of what you have done with my money, because you can’t be my manager any longer.’

Luke 16:4

I know what I’ll do so that when I lose my job people will welcome me into their homes.’