Luke 16:3

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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 refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man,

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?"

What

and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that 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 at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD?

But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do."

I cannot

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

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

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!"

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.

For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.

To beg

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

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.