Matthew 25:24

New Century Version

“Then the servant who had been given one bag of gold came to the master and said, ‘Master, I knew that you were a hard man. You harvest things you did not plant. You gather crops where you did not sow any seed.

Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

They say, ‘To honor you we had special days when we fasted, but you didn’t see. We humbled ourselves to honor you, but you didn’t notice.’ ” But the Lord says, “You do what pleases yourselves on these special days, and you are unfair to your workers.

Jeremiah 2:31

“People of Judah, pay attention to the word of the Lord: Have I been like a desert to the people of Israel or like a dark and dangerous land? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to wander. We won’t come to you anymore’?

Matthew 18:24

When the king began to collect his money, a servant who owed him several million dollars was brought to him.

Matthew 20:12

They said, ‘Those people were hired last and worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as you paid us who worked hard all day in the hot sun.’

Matthew 25:25

So I was afraid and went and hid your money in the ground. Here is your bag of gold.’

Matthew 25:26

The master answered, ‘You are a wicked and lazy servant! You say you knew that I harvest things I did not plant and that I gather crops where I did not sow any seed.

Matthew 7:21

“Not all those who say ‘You are our Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. The only people who will enter the kingdom of heaven are those who do what my Father in heaven wants.

Luke 15:29

But the older son said to his father, ‘I have served you like a slave for many years and have always obeyed your commands. But you never gave me even a young goat to have at a feast with my friends.

Luke 19:13

So he called ten of his servants and gave a coin to each servant. He said, ‘Do business with this money until I get back.’

Luke 6:46

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?

Romans 8:7

When people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God’s law and really are not even able to obey God’s law.

Romans 9:20

You are only human, and human beings have no right to question God. An object should not ask the person who made it, “Why did you make me like this?”