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:
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I knew
Matthew 20:12
'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'
Luke 15:29
'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.
Luke 19:20
Another servant also came and said 'Sir, here are your ten pounds; I have kept them put away in a handkerchief.
Romans 8:7
Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
Romans 9:20
I might rather ask 'Who are you who are arguing with God?' Does a thing which a man has molded say to him who has molded it 'Why did you make me like this?'
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Luke 6:46
Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?