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Luke 19:23
Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
Luke 19:23 · World English Bible
Luke 19:23 in other translations
Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
Then why did you not deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'
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In context
20 Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
21 for 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.
23 Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
24 He 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.
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