Matthew 25:14
World English Bible (WEB)
“For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.
In context
12 But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
13 Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
14 “For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
Matthew 25:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them.
- KJV King James Version
- For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'For — as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,
- DBY Darby Translation
- For [it is] as [if] a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods.