Luke 16:3

New English Translation

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.

Cross References

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman thought to himself, “Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?”

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

Proverbs 29:21

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!

Hosea 9:5

So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?

Matthew 20:8

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

Mark 10:46

They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Luke 12:17

so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Luke 16:2

So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’

Luke 16:20

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

Luke 16:22

“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

John 9:8

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

Acts 9:6

But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.