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 web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Jeremiah 5:31
The 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 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- John 9:8
The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
- Luke 18:4
And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;
- Proverbs 26:13
The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
- Luke 16:22
And 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 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
- Luke 16:20
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
- Proverbs 18:9
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
- Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
- Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
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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.