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
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Bible References
I knew
Matthew 20:12
saying, 'These last [people] worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!'
Job 21:14
And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.
Isaiah 58:3
'Why do we fast, and you do not see [it]? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice [it]?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers!
Jeremiah 2:31
O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?
Jeremiah 44:16
"[Concerning] the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we [are] not going to listen to you!
Ezekiel 18:25
"Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? [Is it] not your ways [that] are not fair?
Malachi 1:12
"But you [are] profaning it by saying the table of the Lord [is] defiled, and its fruit--its food--is despised!
Malachi 3:14
You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?
Luke 15:29
But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!
Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, 'Sir, behold your mina, which I had put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.
Romans 8:7
because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],
Romans 9:20
On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"?
General references
Ezekiel 33:17
"Yet {your people} say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' [yet] their way is not fair.
Luke 6:46
"And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell [you]?