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 if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• Rev 18:7–8However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
• Ezek 34:8As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep;
• Jer 20:2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
• Rev 13:7–10It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
• Ezek 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’
• 3 Jn 1:9–10I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
• Rev 16:6For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
• 2 Pet 2:3–4In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
• Matt 22:6and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
• Isa 65:6“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• Rev 18:24In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”
• Jude 1:12–13These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• Phil 3:18–19For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
• 2 Pet 2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
• 2 Cor 11:20For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
• Rev 13:15–17It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
• Rom 16:18For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• 1 Th 5:7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
• Isa 56:10–12His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Ezek 12:27–28“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’
• Ezek 34:3–4You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don’t feed the sheep.
• Rev 17:5–6And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

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