Bible verse
Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
Luke 19:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 19.
19 And to this one he said, ‘You shall have authority over five cities.’
20 Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
22 His 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?
23 Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
24 Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
25 ‘Master,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’
26 He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
27 And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
KJV
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
ASV
then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?
ERV
then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?
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