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God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
1 Peter 4:10 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
  • KJV As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
  • BSB As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
  • NKJV As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
  • NASB As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the multifaceted grace of God.

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Quick answer

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.

Overview

Peter views every Christian as a recipient of God's varied grace, entrusted with gifts to manage on God's behalf. These gifts are not for self-display but for serving one another. The image of stewardship reminds believers that what they have is given and accountable to God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 26

  • Rom 12:6–8Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
  • 1 Cor 12:4–11Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 4:1–2So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
  • Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
  • 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
  • Rom 15:27Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
  • Eph 4:11He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
  • 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
  • Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
  • Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
  • Luke 12:42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
  • Luke 19:13He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
  • Matt 25:44“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
  • Rom 15:25But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
  • Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Luke 8:3and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.
  • 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Luke 16:1–8He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
  • Matt 24:14This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  • Matt 25:14–15“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
  • Matt 24:45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
  • 2 Tim 1:18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
  • Matt 24:21for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  • 2 Cor 9:1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

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Christ at the center

The lamb without blemish foreknown before the world, who bore our sins in his body on the tree, by whose wounds we are healed — the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls.

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