1 Peter 4:10

Each believer has received a gift of grace and should use it to serve others as a faithful steward. It teaches that spiritual gifts are given for the good of the whole church.

Cross-references · 26

• Rom 12:6–8We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;
• 1 Cor 12:4–11There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
• 1 Cor 4:1–2So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
• Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Heb 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
• 1 Cor 3:10By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds.
• Rom 15:27They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.
• Eph 4:11And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
• Titus 1:7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
• Eph 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
• Luke 12:42And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?
• Luke 19:13Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.
• Matt 25:44And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
• Rom 15:25Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.
• Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• Luke 8:3Joanna the wife of Herod’s household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women were ministering to them out of their own means.
• 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• Luke 16:1–8Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
• Matt 24:14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
• Matt 25:14–15For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
• Matt 24:45Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time?
• 2 Tim 1:18May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.
• Matt 24:21For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
• 2 Cor 9:1Now about the service to the saints, there is no need for me to write to you.

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