Luke 16:3

New Living Translation

“The manager thought to himself, ‘Now what? My boss has fired me. I don’t have the strength to dig ditches, and I’m too proud to beg.

Cross References

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in, and the king said, “What should I do to honor a man who truly pleases me?” Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?”

Proverbs 13:4

Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.

Proverbs 15:19

A lazy person’s way is blocked with briers, but the path of the upright is an open highway.

Proverbs 18:9

A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.

Proverbs 19:15

Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry.

Proverbs 20:4

Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.

Proverbs 29:21

A servant pampered from childhood will become a rebel.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do when I punish you, when I send disaster upon you from a distant land? To whom will you turn for help? Where will your treasures be safe?

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets give false prophecies, and the priests rule with an iron hand. Worse yet, my people like it that way! But what will you do when the end comes?

Hosea 9:5

What then will you do on festival days? How will you observe the Lord’s festivals?

Matthew 20:8

“That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.

Mark 10:46

Then they reached Jericho, and as Jesus and his disciples left town, a large crowd followed him. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting beside the road.

Luke 12:17

He said to himself, ‘What should I do? I don’t have room for all my crops.’

Luke 16:2

So the employer called him in and said, ‘What’s this I hear about you? Get your report in order, because you are going to be fired.’

Luke 16:20

At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus who was covered with sores.

Luke 16:22

“Finally, the poor man died and was carried by the angels to sit beside Abraham at the heavenly banquet. The rich man also died and was buried,

Luke 16:4

Ah, I know how to ensure that I’ll have plenty of friends who will give me a home when I am fired.’

Luke 18:4

The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people,

John 9:8

His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple.

Acts 9:6

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

2 Thessalonians 3:11

Yet we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people’s business.