Luke 19:19–27
19“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’↗
20Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,↗
21for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’↗
22“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.↗
23Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’↗
24He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’↗
25“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’↗
26‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.↗
27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”↗
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