Luke 19:21

For I feared you, because you are a harsh man. You take up what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

In Context

20“Then another came, saying, ‘Master, behold your mina, which I had laid away in a handkerchief.

22And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I did not deposit, and reaping what I did not sow.

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Cross References

Romans 8:7Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 1 Not Ashamed of the Gospel

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 →

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