Matthew 25:27
Good News Translation
Well, then, you should have deposited my money in the bank, and I would have received it all back with interest when I returned.

New Revised Standard Version
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest.

Contemporary English Version
You could have at least put my money in the bank, so I could have earned interest on it."

New American Bible
Should you not then have put my money in the bank so that I could have got it back with interest on my return?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.

oughtest.

Luke 19:22,23 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. . . .

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

with.

Deuteronomy 23:19,20 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing: . . .

Context
The Parable of the Talents
26And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I have not strewed. 27Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers: and at my coming I should have received my own with usury. 28Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that hath ten talents.…
Cross References
Matthew 25:26
And his lord answering, said to him: Wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sow not and gather where I have not strewed.

Matthew 25:28
Take ye away therefore the talent from him and give it him that hath ten talents.

Luke 19:23
And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?

Matthew 25:26
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