And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
- BSB Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.
- NKJV And likewise he who had received two gained two more also.
- NASB In the same way the one who had received the two talents earned two more.
- NLT The servant with two bags of silver also went to work and earned two more.
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Quick answer
Likewise the servant with two talents gained two more. Faithfulness is the same standard for those given less.
Overview
The second servant, with fewer resources, shows the same diligence and proportionate gain. His example proves that faithfulness, not the size of the gift, is what counts. God measures stewardship by what we do with what we have. Every believer, however gifted, is called to this same active faithfulness.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 3:9–10Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- Eph 5:16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Mark 14:3–8And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
- 1 Kgs 18:3–4And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
- Acts 9:36–39Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
- 2 Cor 9:11–14Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
- Gen 18:19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
- Eccl 11:1–6Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
- Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- 1 Pet 4:10As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
- 1 Tim 5:10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
- Acts 10:2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
- Col 4:17And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
- Gal 6:9–10And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
- 2 Tim 1:16–18The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
- Acts 11:29–30Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
- 2 Cor 8:12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
- 2 Kgs 4:8–10And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
- Job 29:11–17When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
- 2 Sam 19:32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
- Job 31:16–22If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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