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Matthew 25:27
Matthew 25:27 is verse 27 of Matthew chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.
King James Version
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
World English Bible
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
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Matthew 25:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what belongs to you.’
26 ‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.
28 Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten talents.
29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Luke 19:23Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
Deuteronomy 23:19Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Deuteronomy 23:20You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.