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

'These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us which have borne the burden and heat of the day.'

They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

They seek of me righteous judgments, and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it? Have humbled our souls, and thou wouldest not wit it?

If ye be the people of the LORD, then hearken unto his word: Am I then become a wilderness unto the people of Israel? Or a land that hath no light? Wherefore sayeth my people then, 'We are lords; and we will come no more unto thee'?

"As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them:

But you will say, 'The way of the Lord is not equal.' Here I pray you, ye house of Israel. Is not my way equal?

But ye have unhallowed it, in that ye say, 'The altar of the LORD is not to be regarded, and the thing that is set thereupon, not worthy to be eaten.'

Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

He answered, and said to his father, 'Lo these many years have I done thee service, neither brake at any time thy commandment, and yet gavest thou me never so much as a kid to make merry with my lovers:

And the third came, and said, 'Lord, behold here thy pound, which I have kept in a napkin,

because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be.

But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?"

General references

And yet the children of thy people say, 'Tush, the way of the LORD is not right,' whereas their own way is rather unright.

Why call ye me 'Master, Master': and do not as I bid you?