International Children’s Bible

Luke 19:22-27 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

22. Then the king said to the servant, ‘You evil servant! I will use your own words to condemn you. You said that I am a hard man. You said that I even take money that I didn’t earn and gather food that I didn’t plant.

23. If that is true, then you should have put my money in the bank. Then, when I came back, my money would have earned some interest.’

24. “Then the king said to the men who were watching, ‘Take the bag of money away from this servant and give it to the servant who earned ten bags of money.’

25. They said to the king, ‘But sir, that servant already has ten bags of money!’

26. The king said, ‘The one who uses what he has will get more. But the one who does not use what he has will have everything taken away from him.

27. Now where are my enemies who didn’t want me to be king? Bring them here and kill them before me.’”