Luke 16:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

Said

Luke 18:4

Esther 6:6

What

Acts 9:6

I cannot

To beg

Acts 3:2

Bible References

Said

For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

So Haman came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?”

What

And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’

Now what will you do in the day of punishment,
And in the devastation which will come from afar?

To whom will you flee for help?

And where will you leave your wealth?

The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule on their own authority;
And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it?

What will you do on the day of the appointed festival

And on the day of the feast of the Lord?

but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”

I cannot

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
But the soul of the diligent is made fat.

The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns,
But the path of the upright is a highway.

He also who is slack in his work

Is brother to him who destroys.

Laziness casts into a deep sleep,

And an idle man will suffer hunger.

The desire of the sluggard puts him to death,
For his hands refuse to work;

I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
A lion is in the open square!”

Know well the condition of your flocks,

And pay attention to your herds;

He who pampers his slave from childhood
Will in the end find him to be a son.

For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.

To beg

And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,

The sluggard does not plow after the autumn,
So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.

Then they *came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.

Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?”

And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.