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 spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.

'Why have we fasted,' say they, 'and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

Generation, consider the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

"'Yet you say, "The way of the Lord is not equal." Hear now, house of Israel: "Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways unequal?"

"But you profane it, in that you say, 'The LORD's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

But he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

Another came, saying, 'Lord, look, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

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.

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?