Bible Verses About Unfaithfulness

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

Who, having laid hands on him, beat and sent him away empty.

And again he sent to them another servant: and him they wounded in the head and used him reproachfully.

And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed.

Therefore, having yet one son, most dear to him, he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son.

But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir. Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.

And laying hold on him, they killed him and cast him out of the vineyard.

What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others.

He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard: and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground?

But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it and dung it.

And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

He said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come.

But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

And it came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading,

And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.

And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.

And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities.

And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.

He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.

And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?

And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds.