Matthew 25:30
Good News Translation
As for this useless servant--throw him outside in the darkness; there he will cry and gnash his teeth.'

New Revised Standard Version
As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Contemporary English Version
You are a worthless servant, and you will be thrown out into the dark where people will cry and grit their teeth in pain."

New American Bible
And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

cast.

Matthew 3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

Jeremiah 15:1,2 And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel shall stand before me, my soul is not towards this people: cast them out from my sight, and let them go forth. . . .

Ezekiel 15:2-5 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? . . .

Luke 14:34,35 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? . . .

John 15:6 If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.

Titus 3:14 And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary uses: that they be not unfruitful.

Hebrews 6:7,8 For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God. . . .

Revelation 3:15,16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. . . .

outer.

Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:42,50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. . . .

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

2 Peter 2:17 These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Context
The Parable of the Talents
29For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be taken away. 30And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 31And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty.…
Cross References
Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 22:13
Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 13:28
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

Matthew 25:29
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