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Mat 25:27 — Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

oughtest		Luk 19:22,23; Rom 3:19; Jud 1:15
with		Deu 23:19,20

Correlating Passages

oughtest

	Luk 19:22	And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, [thou] wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
	Luk 19:23	Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
	Rom 3:19	Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
	Jud 1:15	To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

with

	Deu 23:19	Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
	Deu 23:20	Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 25:27," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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