Matthew 25:16

The servant with five talents traded and gained five more. Faithful stewardship puts the master's gifts actively to work.

Cross-references · 24

• Phlm 1:6–7I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.
• 1 Tim 6:17–18Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
• 3 Jn 1:5–8Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.
• 2 Tim 2:6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
• 2 Tim 4:5–8But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• Isa 60:5–16Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
• Neh 5:14–19Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
• Isa 23:18Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
• Rom 15:18–19I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,
• 2 Chr 33:15–16He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
• 1 Cor 9:16–23Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
• Acts 13:36For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
• 1 Chr 28:2Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build it,
• 2 Sam 7:1–3After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
• 2 Chr 17:3–9Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek out the Baals,
• 2 Chr 31:20–21So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
• 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.
• 2 Chr 34:1–33Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.
• 2 Chr 1:9–10Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
• 2 Chr 15:8–15When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
• Isa 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
• 1 Chr 22:1–19Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
• 1 Chr 13:1–3Then David conferred with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.
• 2 Chr 19:4–10Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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