Matthew 25:24
And the man who received the one talent also having come, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou are a hard man, reaping where thou did not sow, and gathering from where thou did not scatter.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25And after being afraid, having gone, I hid thy talent in the ground. Lo, thou have thine own.
Cross References
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.
Jeremiah 44:16As for the word that thou have spoken to us in the name of LORD, we will not hearken to thee.
Malachi 1:12But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of LORD is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.
Matthew 7:21Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.
Luke 6:46And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and not do the things that I say?
Luke 19:20And another came, saying, Lord, behold thy mina, which I had put away in a napkin.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 25:15-31
The Parable of the Talents. 14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. 16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. 17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. 18 But he that had… Read the whole commentary →