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 by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Acts 3:2A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
• Prov 26:13–16The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
• Hos 9:5What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
• Prov 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
• Luke 16:22The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
• John 9:8The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
• Prov 29:21He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.
• Prov 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
• Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
• Prov 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
• Luke 18:4He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
• Esth 6:6So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
• Isa 10:3What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
• Luke 16:20A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores,
• Mark 10:46They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
• Luke 12:17He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
• Prov 21:25–26The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
• Prov 18:9One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
• Prov 27:23–27Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
• 2 Th 3:11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.
• Acts 9:6But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
• Prov 15:19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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