Matthew 18:32
Good News Translation
So he called the servant in. 'You worthless slave!' he said. 'I forgave you the whole amount you owed me, just because you asked me to.

New Revised Standard Version
Then his lord summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.

Contemporary English Version
The king called the first official back in and said, "You're an evil man! When you begged for mercy, I said you did not have to pay back a cent.

New American Bible
His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me:

O thou.

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.

Luke 19:22 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.

Context
The Unforgiving Servant
31Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much grieved, and they came, and told their lord all that was done. 32Then his lord called him: and said to him: Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all the debt, because thou besoughtest me: 33Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?…
Cross References
Matthew 18:27
And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:31
Now his fellow servants seeing what was done, were very much grieved, and they came, and told their lord all that was done.

Matthew 18:33
Shouldst not thou then have had compassion also on thy fellow servant, even as I had compassion on thee?

James 2:13
For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Matthew 18:31
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