Luke 16:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

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  • Esth 6:6 : 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, But the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Prov 15:19 : 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, But the path of the upright is a highway.
  • Prov 18:9 : 9 One who is slack in his work Is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Prov 21:25-26 : 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him, For his hands refuse to labor. 26 There are those who covet greedily all the day long; But the righteous give and don't withhold.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, By the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
  • Prov 26:13-16 : 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!" 14 As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed. 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish. He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
  • Prov 27:23-27 : 23 Know well the state of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds: 24 For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations. 25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, The grasses of the hills are gathered in. 26 The lambs are for your clothing, And the goats are the price of a field. 27 There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 He who pampers his servant from youth Will have him become a son in the end.
  • Isa 10:3 : 3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
  • Hos 9:5 : 5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, And in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
  • Mark 10:46 : 46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
  • Luke 12:17 : 17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
  • Luke 16:20 : 20 A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,
  • Luke 16:22 : 22 It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
  • Luke 18:4 : 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
  • John 9:8 : 8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"
  • Acts 3:2 : 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
  • Acts 9:6 : 6 But{TR omits "But" } rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
  • 2 Thess 3:11 : 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

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  • Luke 16:4-9
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    4 I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.'

    5 Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'

    6 He said, 'A hundred batos{100 batos is about 395 litres, 104 U. S. gallons, or 87 imperial gallons.} of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.'

    7 Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors{ 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels. } of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

    8 "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

    9 I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

  • Luke 16:1-2
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    1 He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

    2 He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'

  • Luke 12:16-20
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    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

    17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

    18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

    19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

    20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

  • Luke 12:42-43
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    42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

    43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

  • Matt 25:24-27
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    24 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.

    25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'

    26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

    27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

  • Luke 17:7-8
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    7 But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'

    8 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?

  • Luke 19:20-24
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    20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

    21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

    22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

    23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'

    24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'

  • Matt 25:18
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    18 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

  • Luke 15:14-17
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    14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

    15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

    16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

    17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

  • Luke 16:11-13
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    11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

    12 If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

    13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon{"Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.}."

  • Luke 14:21
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    21 "That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'

  • Luke 15:19
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    19 I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

  • Luke 12:45-46
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    45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

    46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.

  • Matt 18:25-26
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    25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

    26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'

  • Matt 18:31-32
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    31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.

    32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

  • Luke 19:12
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    12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

  • Matt 18:28
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    28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii,{100 denarii was about one sixtieth of a talent.} and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

  • Matt 24:47-48
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    47 Most assuredly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

    48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

  • Matt 25:30
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    30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

  • Luke 20:16
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    16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

  • Luke 19:26
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    26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

  • Luke 20:13
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    13 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

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