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 refused, but later on he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" Haman thought to himself, "Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?"

What

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

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!

So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?

But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do."

I cannot

The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.

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

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.

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

Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds,

If someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling in the end.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others.

To beg

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.