Matthew 24:48 Cross References - WPNT

⁴⁸ But if that bad servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his return’,

³² Then summoning him the lord says to him: ‘Malignant servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

²⁶ So in answer his lord said to him: ‘You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.

²¹ Because from within, out of men’s hearts, the evil designs proceed—adulteries, fornications, murders,

⁴⁵ But if that servant should say in his heart, ‘My master won’t come for a while’, and should begin to hit the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

²² So he said to him: ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked slave! You knew that I am a hard man, removing what I didn’t place, and reaping what I didn’t sow.

² And after supper (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),

³ So Peter said: “Ananias, on what basis has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the price of the land?

²² Turn away therefore from this your wickedness and make petition to God, in case the intent of your heart may be forgiven you;

³ Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts ⁴ and saying: “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” ⁵ This because they deliberately forget that heavens and land (out of water and through water) had been existing from of old by the word of God,