Matthew 9:16

9:16 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, because the patch will pull away from the garment and the tear will be worse.

Matthew 13:12

13:12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. ¹ 

Matthew 14:12

14:12 Then John’s ²  disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

Matthew 21:43

21:43 For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people ³  who will produce its fruit.

Matthew 24:39

24:39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. ⁴  It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁵ 

Matthew 25:29

25:29 For the one who has will be given more, ⁶  and he will have more than enough. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. ⁷ 

¹ sn What he has will be taken from him. The meaning is that the one who accepts Jesus’ teaching concerning his person and the kingdom will receive a share in the kingdom now and even more in the future, but for the one who rejects Jesus’ words, the opportunity that that person presently possesses with respect to the kingdom will someday be taken away forever.

¹ tn Grk “his”; the referent (John) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Then.”

¹ tn Or “to a nation” (so KJV, NASB, NLT).

¹ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

² tn Grk “So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.”

¹ tn Grk “to everyone who has, he will be given more.”

² sn The one who has nothing has even what he seems to have taken from him, ending up with no reward at all (see also Luke 8:18). The exact force of this is left ambiguous, but there is no comfort here for those who are pictured by the third slave as being totally unmoved by the master. Though not an outright enemy, there is no relationship to the master either.