Luke 16:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do, now that my master is taking the position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

Cross References

Esther 6:6

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?”

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the lazy is overgrown with thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 18:9

One who is slack in work is close kin to a vandal.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:4

The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.

Proverbs 29:21

A slave pampered from childhood will come to a bad end.

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of appointed festival and on the day of the festival of the Lord?

Matthew 20:8

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.’

Mark 10:46

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

Luke 12:17

And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’

Luke 16:2

So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’

Luke 16:20

And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,

Luke 16:22

The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:4

I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,

John 9:8

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 3:2

And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.

Acts 9:6

But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that some of you are living irresponsibly, mere busybodies, not doing any work.