Luke 12:42

Jesus asks who is the faithful and wise steward set over the household to provide for it. He defines the trustworthy servant by faithful care of others.

Cross-references · 23

• Matt 24:45–46“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
• 1 Pet 4:10As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
• Heb 13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
• 1 Pet 5:1–4Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
• 1 Cor 4:1–2So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
• Luke 19:15–19“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
• Acts 20:28Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
• 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;
• 1 Tim 5:17Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
• Heb 3:5Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,
• Heb 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
• Ezek 34:3You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don’t feed the sheep.
• John 21:15–17So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
• Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
• Prov 15:23Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
• Matt 13:52He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
• 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Jer 23:4I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking,” says Yahweh.
• Matt 25:20–23He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
• Luke 16:1–31He 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 20:8When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
• Luke 7:13When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

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