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

He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,

So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"

What

He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."

I cannot

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

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

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

To beg

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"

A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.