Matthew 20:2
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He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
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The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with man.
I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.