Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
25I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
Cross References
Isaiah 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Jeremiah 44:16“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the LORD’s name, we will not listen to you.
Malachi 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Luke 6:46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
Luke 19:20Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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 →