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 1:6–7That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Tim 6:17–18Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• 3 Jn 1:5–8Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
• 2 Tim 2:6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.
• 2 Tim 4:5–8But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• Isa 60:5–16Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
• Neh 5:14–19Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
• Isa 23:18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
• Rom 15:18–19For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
• 2 Chr 33:15–16And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
• 1 Cor 9:16–23For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
• Acts 13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
• 1 Chr 28:2Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
• 2 Sam 7:1–3And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
• 2 Chr 17:3–9And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
• 2 Chr 31:20–21And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 2 Chr 34:1–33Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
• 2 Chr 1:9–10Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
• 2 Chr 15:8–15And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
• Isa 49:23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
• 1 Chr 22:1–19Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
• 1 Chr 13:1–3And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
• 2 Chr 19:4–10And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

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