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 fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Tim 6:17–18Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• 3 Jn 1:5–8Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
• 2 Tim 2:6The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
• 2 Tim 4:5–8But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Isa 60:5–16Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
• 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 to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
• Isa 23:18Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
• Rom 15:18–19For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
• 2 Chr 33:15–16He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
• 1 Cor 9:16–23For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News.
• Acts 13:36For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
• 1 Chr 28:2Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, “Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
• 2 Sam 7:1–3When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
• 2 Chr 17:3–9Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,
• 2 Chr 31:20–21Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
• 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.
• 2 Chr 34:1–33Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 1:9–10Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
• 2 Chr 15:8–15When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed Yahweh’s altar that was before Yahweh’s porch.
• Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
• 1 Chr 22:1–19Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
• 1 Chr 13:1–3David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
• 2 Chr 19:4–10Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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