Bible Verses About Malfeasance in Office

Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.

When harvest-time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the crop from the vineyard.

But they took him, beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another servant; this one they punched in the head and insulted.

He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others -- some they beat up, others they killed.

He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, `My son they will respect.'

But the tenants said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!'

So they seized him, killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

Speaking to the talmidim, Yeshua said: “There was a wealthy man who employed a general manager. Charges were brought to him that his manager was squandering his resources.

So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.’

“‘What am I to do?’ said the manager to himself. ‘My boss is firing me, I’m not strong enough to dig ditches, and I’m ashamed to go begging.

Aha! I know what I’ll do — something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I’ve lost my job here!’

“So, after making appointments with each of his employer’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my boss?’

‘Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back,’ he told him. ‘Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for four hundred!’

To the next he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back and write one for eight hundred.’

Next Yeshua told the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant-farmers and went away for a long time.

When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to receive his share of the crop from the vineyard; but the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent another servant; they beat him too, insulted him and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent yet a third; this one they wounded and threw out.

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What am I to do? I will send my son, whom I love; maybe they will respect him.’

But when the tenants saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours!’

And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?