Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Luke 16:3

“Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.”

Luke 16:3 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Luke 16:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Luke 16. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

5 So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Proverbs 20:4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
  • Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • John 9:8The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
  • Luke 18:4And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
  • Proverbs 26:13The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
  • Luke 16:22And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
  • Proverbs 27:23Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
  • Luke 16:20And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
  • Proverbs 18:9He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
  • Proverbs 13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
  • Proverbs 29:21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
  • Proverbs 24:30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
  • Mark 10:46And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

More to meet God in Luke

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.