Luke 16:3

Facing unemployment, the manager admits he is too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg, and ponders his future.

Cross-references · 23

• Prov 24:30–34I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
• Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
• Prov 26:13–16The slacker says, “A lion is in the road! A fierce lion roams the public square!”
• Hos 9:5What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD’s feast?
• Prov 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
• Luke 16:22One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• John 9:8At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
• Prov 29:21A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
• Prov 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
• Prov 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
• Luke 18:4For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,
• Esth 6:6Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
• Isa 10:3What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
• Luke 16:20And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
• Mark 10:46Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
• Luke 12:17So he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, since I have nowhere to store my crops?’
• Prov 21:25–26The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
• Prov 18:9Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
• Prov 27:23–27Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
• 2 Th 3:11Yet we hear that some of you are leading undisciplined lives and accomplishing nothing but being busybodies.
• Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
• Prov 15:19The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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