Verse 27

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 23:19-20 : 19 `Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. 20 To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
  • Luke 19:22-23 : 22 `And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow! 23 and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'