Luke 12:45

But if a servant presumes his master delays and begins to abuse others and indulge himself, he proves unfaithful. Forgetting the Lord's coming leads to corrupt living.

Cross-references · 24

• Matt 24:48–50But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
• Rev 18:7–8As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
• Ezek 34:8‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
• Jer 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
• Rev 13:7–10Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
• Ezek 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.
• Rev 16:6For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
• 2 Pet 2:3–4In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
• Matt 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
• Isa 65:6Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
• 2 Pet 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
• Rev 18:24And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
• Jude 1:12–13These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
• Phil 3:18–19For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
• 2 Pet 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
• 2 Cor 11:20In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
• Rev 13:15–17The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.
• Rom 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
• 1 Th 5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
• Isa 56:10–12Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• Ezek 12:27–28“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’
• Ezek 34:3–4You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
• Rev 17:5–6And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

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