Luke 19:21
For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’
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In The King James Version
In Context
20And another approached, saying: ‘Lord, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth.
Cross References
Exodus 20:19saying to Moses: “Speak to us, and we will listen. Let not the Lord speak to us, lest perhaps we may die.”
1 Samuel 12:20Then Samuel said to the people: “Do not be afraid. You have done all this evil. Yet truly, do not choose to withdraw from the back of the Lord. Instead, serve the Lord with all your heart.
Job 21:14Who has said to God, “Depart from us, for we do not want the knowledge of your ways.
Malachi 3:14And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?”
Romans 8:7And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.
2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
Matthew Henry on Luke 19:12-28
The Nobleman and His Servants. 11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. 14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this… Read the whole commentary →