Matthew 25:24

“Then the man who had received one talent also approached and said, ‘Master, I know you. You’re a difficult man, reaping where you haven’t sown and gathering where you haven’t scattered seed.

Job 21:14-15

Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!
We don’t want to know Your ways.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted, but You have not seen?
We have denied ourselves, but You haven’t noticed!”
“Look, you do as you please on the day of your fast,
and oppress all your workers.

Evil generation,
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?
Why do My people claim,
“We will go where we want;
we will no longer come to You”?

Jeremiah 44:16-18

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

Ezekiel 18:25-29

“But you say, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ Now listen, house of Israel: Is it My way that is unfair? Instead, isn’t it your ways that are unfair?

Malachi 1:12-13

But you are profaning it when you say: “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.”

Malachi 3:14-15

You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Matthew 20:12

‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’

Luke 6:46

“Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?

Luke 15:29

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 19:20-22

“And another came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina. I have kept it hidden away in a cloth

Romans 8:7

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Matthew 25:24

Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

I knew

General references

Ezekiel 33:17

Luke 6:46

Bible References