Luke 19:21

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For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

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  • Exod 20:19-20 : 19 They said to Moses,“You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak with us, lest we die.” 20 Moses said to the people,“Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you so that you do not sin.”
  • 1 Sam 6:19-21 : 19 But the LORD struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD; he struck down 50,070 of the men. The people grieved because the LORD had struck the people with a hard blow. 20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked,“Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?” 21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying,“The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down here and take it back home with you.”
  • 1 Sam 12:20 : 20 Then Samuel said to the people,“Don’t be afraid. You have indeed sinned. However, don’t turn aside from the LORD. Serve the LORD with all your heart.
  • 2 Sam 6:9-9 : 9 David was afraid of the LORD that day and said,“How will the ark of the LORD ever come to me?” 10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his family.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 So they say to God,‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
  • Ezek 18:25-29 : 25 “Yet you say,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust? 26 When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die. 27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life. 28 Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
  • Mal 3:14-15 : 14 You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies? 15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”
  • Matt 25:24-25 : 24 Then the one who had received the one talent came and said,‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.
  • Jas 2:10 : 10 For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
  • 1 John 4:18 : 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

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  • Luke 19:22-26
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    22The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

    23Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

    24And he said to his attendants,‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’

    25But they said to him,‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’

    26‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

  • Matt 25:24-28
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    24Then the one who had received the one talent came and said,‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

    25so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

    26But his master answered,‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

    27Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

    28Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.

  • Luke 19:15-20
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    15When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading.

    16So the first one came before him and said,‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’

    17And the king said to him,‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

    18Then the second one came and said,‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

    19So the king said to him,‘And you are to be over five cities.’

    20Then another slave came and said,‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

  • Luke 16:2-3
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    2So 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.’

    3Then 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.

  • Matt 25:18-21
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    18But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

    19After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

    20The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying,‘Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’

    21His master answered,‘Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.’

  • Matt 18:34
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    34And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

  • Luke 12:20-21
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    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

    21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

  • Matt 25:30
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    30And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • Job 6:21
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    21For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

  • Matt 18:31-32
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    31When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset and went and told their lord everything that had taken place.

    32Then his lord called the first slave and said to him,‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

  • Luke 19:13
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    13And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them,‘Do business with these until I come back.’

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    17so he thought to himself,‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

    18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  • Job 19:29
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    29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

  • Luke 18:4
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    4For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

  • Luke 12:5
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    5But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

  • Matt 18:28
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    28After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying,‘Pay back what you owe me!’

  • Matt 18:23-25
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    23The Parable of the Unforgiving Slave“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

    24As he began settling his accounts, a man who owed ten thousand talents was brought to him.

    25Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.

  • Luke 12:46-47
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    46then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

    47That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

  • Luke 18:2
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    2He said,“In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

  • Luke 16:5
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    5So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first,‘How much do you owe my master?’

  • Matt 13:29
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    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

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    27So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him,‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the darnel come from?’

  • Matt 21:33
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  • Mark 4:25
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    25For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

  • Matt 21:41
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    41They said to him,“He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

  • John 4:37-38
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    37For in this instance the saying is true,‘One sows and another reaps.’

    38I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”