Matthew 25:24 Cross References

Matthew 25:24

24: "Then the servant with the one bag of gold came and said, 'Sir, I know you are a hard man, harvesting crops you didn't plant and gathering crops you didn't cultivate.

Luke 19:20

  1. "But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, 'I hid it and kept it safe.
  2. I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn't yours and harvesting crops you didn't plant.'
  3. "'You wicked servant!' the king roared. 'Hard, am I? If you knew so much about me and how tough I am,

Luke 15:29

  1. but he replied, 'All these years I've worked hard for you and never once refused to do a single thing you told me to. And in all that time you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends.

Jeremiah 2:31

  1. "O my people, listen to the words of the LORD! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, `At last we are free from God! We won't have anything to do with him anymore!'

Job 21:14

  1. All this, even though they say to God, `Go away. We want no part of you and your ways.
  2. Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us if we pray?'

Matthew 20:12

  1. 'Those people worked only one hour, and yet you've paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.'

Malachi 3:14

  1. "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?
  2. From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"

Malachi 1:12

  1. "But you dishonor my name with your actions. By bringing contemptible food, you are saying it's all right to defile the Lord's table.
  2. You say, `It's too hard to serve the LORD,' and you turn up your noses at his commands," says the LORD Almighty. "Think of it! Animals that are stolen and mutilated, crippled and sick--presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?" asks the LORD.

Romans 8:7

  1. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.

Jeremiah 44:16

  1. "We will not listen to your messages from the LORD!
  2. We will do whatever we want. We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and sacrifice to her just as much as we like--just as we and our ancestors did before us, and as our kings and princes have always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For in those days we had plenty to eat, and we were well off and had no troubles!
  3. But ever since we quit burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and stopped worshiping her, we have been in great trouble and have suffered the effects of war and famine."

Luke 6:46

  1. "So why do you call me 'Lord,' when you won't obey me?

Ezekiel 18:25

  1. "Yet you say, `The Lord isn't being just!' Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one who is unjust, or is it you?
  2. When righteous people turn from being good and start doing sinful things, they will die for it. Yes, they will die because of their sinful deeds.
  3. And if wicked people turn away from their wickedness, obey the law, and do what is just and right, they will save their lives.
  4. They will live, because after thinking it over, they decided to turn from their sins. Such people will not die.
  5. And yet the people of Israel keep saying, `The Lord is unjust!' O people of Israel, it is you who are unjust, not I.

Romans 9:20

  1. No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to criticize God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "Why have you made me like this?"

Matthew 7:21

  1. "Not all people who sound religious are really godly. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but they still won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven.

Isaiah 58:3

  1. `We have fasted before you!' they say. `Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!'"I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers.
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