Matthew 18:24

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.”

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BSBPD

“As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Matthew 18:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 44:10“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
  2. 1 Chronicles 29:7Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
  3. Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
  4. Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
  5. Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
  6. Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
  7. Luke 7:41“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
  8. Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
  9. Luke 16:5And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
  10. Luke 16:7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

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