Luke 16:3

New International Version

“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—

Cross References

Esther 6:6

When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”

Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.

Proverbs 20:4

Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

Proverbs 29:21

A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the Lord?

Matthew 20:8

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

Mark 10:46

Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging.

Luke 12:17

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

Luke 16:2

So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

Luke 16:20

At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores

Luke 16:22

“The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

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

Luke 18:4

“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,

John 9:8

His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.

Acts 9:6

“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.