Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense dar
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the da
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like th
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’