Luke 19:21
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin;
Cross References
Exodus 20:19Saying to Moses: Speak thou to us, and we will hear: let not the Lord speak to us, lest we die.
1 Samuel 12:20And Samuel said to the people: Fear not, you have done all this evil: but yet depart not from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
Job 21:14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Malachi 3:14And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
Romans 8:7Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.
2 Timothy 1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of sobriety.
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 →