8 Bible Verses about Strictness
Most Relevant Verses
"The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes,
"They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.
For this reason I am writing thus while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.
Fix your gaze, therefore, on the goodness and the severity of God; towards those who fell, severity, but towards you, God's goodness, if you continue stedfast in his goodness; otherwise you, too, will be cut off.
"Then the man who had received the one talent came up and said: "'Master, I knew you were a hard man, reaping where you had not sown, and gathering where you had not scattered;
"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'
"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.
