Luke 19:21

for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man ??picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'

Matthew 25:24-25

Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.

Romans 8:7

For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

Romans 8:15

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

2 Timothy 1:7

for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

James 2:10

For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.

1 John 4:18

Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious of all the impious deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh things said against him by impious sinners.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

Bible References

I feared

Matthew 25:24
Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.
Romans 8:15
You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",
2 Timothy 1:7
for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.
James 2:10
For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.
1 John 4:18
Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment ??anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.

Because

Romans 8:7
For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious of all the impious deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh things said against him by impious sinners.