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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“As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 18:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
- 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.
- Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Luke 7:41“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
- 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?
- Luke 16:5And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
- 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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