Luke 12:45

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

And if

Matthew 24:48

2 Peter 2:3

To beat

Revelation 18:24

To eat

Revelation 18:7

Bible References

And if

But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

To beat

while the rest seized his servants and ill-treated them and killed them.

You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face.

I have written to the church; only, Diotrephes, who likes to take the lead among them, repudiates me.

He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;

They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"

and on her forehead a name was written by way of symbol, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of all abominations on earth."

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, of all who were slain upon earth."

To eat

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves ??rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,

As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'