A slacker says, “There’s a lion on the road! A lion is in the streets!”
Matthew 25:25 - Tree of Life Version So I was afraid, and I went off and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is your own. American Standard Version (1901) and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own. Common English Bible So I was afraid. And I hid my valuable coin in the ground. Here, you have what’s yours.’ Catholic Public Domain Version And so, being afraid, I went out and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And being afraid I went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold here thou hast that which is thine. |
A slacker says, “There’s a lion on the road! A lion is in the streets!”
“Whom was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied. But you did not remember Me or take it to heart? Have I not kept silent a long time— yet you do not fear Me?
“Then the one who had received the one talent also came up and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow and gathering where you scattered no seed.
“But his master responded, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow and gather where I scattered no seed?
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall again into fear; rather, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”