Bible Verses About Unfaithfulness

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.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!

Then Yeshua gave this illustration: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit but didn’t find any.

So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘Here, I’ve come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down — why let it go on using up the soil?’

But he answered, ‘Sir, leave it alone one more year. I’ll dig around it and put manure on it.

If it bears fruit next year, well and good; if not, you will have it cut down then.’”

Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a country far away to have himself crowned king and then return.

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten manim [a maneh is about three months’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business with this while I’m away.’

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’

“However, he returned, having been made king, and sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned in his business dealings.

The first one came in and said, ‘Sir, your maneh has earned ten more manim.’

‘Excellent!’ he said to him. ‘You are a good servant. Because you have been trustworthy in a small matter, I am putting you in charge of ten towns.’

The second one came and said, ‘Sir, your maneh has earned five more manim;

and to this one he said, ‘You be in charge of five towns.’

“Then another one came and said, ‘Sir, here is your maneh. I kept it hidden in a piece of cloth,

because I was afraid of you — you take out what you didn’t put in, and you harvest what you didn’t plant.’

To him the master said, ‘You wicked servant! I will judge you by your own words! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, taking out what I didn’t put in and harvesting what I didn’t plant?

Then why didn’t you put my money in the bank? Then, when I returned, I would have gotten it back with interest!’

To those standing by, he said, ‘Take the maneh from him and give it to the one with ten manim.’