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 but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

Why have we fasted, they say, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exploit all your laborers.

O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?

As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto you.

Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his food, is contemptible.

You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years have I served you, neither transgressed I at any time your commandment: and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is your pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?

General references

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

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