Matthew 25:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

I knew

saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth you, and exact all your labours.

O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,

And ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear then, house of Israel. Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible.

Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends:

And another came, saying, My Lord, lo, there is thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a towel.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

General references

Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say?