22 occurrences

'Servants' in the Bible

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

Verse ConceptsFigurative FieldsGood PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Sowing Seeds

And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

Verse ConceptsEnemies Of God

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSuperstitionWho He Might BeWhy It Happenedanniversary

For this reason the kingdom of heaven is like a king, who went over his accounts with his servants.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheServanthood, In SocietyLikeningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomSettling Accountsaccounting

But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.

Verse ConceptsFraudUnmercifulnessExtortion, Examples OfDenariusExtortionGraspingSettling AccountsDebtServant Leadership

So when the other servants saw what was done they were very sad, and came and gave word to their lord of what had been done.

Verse ConceptsOther Sad PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsServants Of PeopleGod Sends Prophets

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

Verse ConceptsKilling ProphetsKilling Disciples

Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.

Verse ConceptsMealsGod Sends ProphetsPeople UnwillingWedding GuestsCelebration

Again he sent out other servants, with orders to say to the guests, See, I have made ready my feast: my oxen and my fat beasts have been put to death, and all things are ready: come to the feast.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, ActivitiesReadinessKilling Domesticated AnimalsGod Sends ProphetsPreparing Food

And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

Verse ConceptsMalice Of The WickedKilling ProphetsOppressors

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingBurning CitiesGod KillsAngry People

Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.

Verse ConceptsUnworthinessPreparing Food

And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.

Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomMixed MultitudeUsing RoadsWedding GuestsHighways

And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;

Verse ConceptsGluttonydrinking, abstention fromEating And Drinkingdrunkards

For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property.

Verse ConceptsTalentsRich, TheLikeningEntrustingLikening ThingsPropertyGifts And Talentsmathlent

But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.

Verse ConceptsPeople Sitting DownEnd Of Actionsdistanceprepping

Bible Theasaurus

Handmaiden (3 instances)
Servant (845 instances)

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