Matthew 25:16

The Parable Of The Talents

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one—to each according to his own ability. Then he went on a journey. Immediately ¹⁶ the man who had received five talents went, put them to work, and earned five more. ¹⁷ In the same way the man with two earned two more.

The Twelve

2 Samuel 7:1-3

When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

1 Chronicles 13:1-3

David consulted with all his leaders, the commanders of hundreds and of thousands.

1 Chronicles 22:1-19

Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

1 Chronicles 28:2-17

Then 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 Lord’s covenant and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build,

2 Chronicles 1:9-10

Lord God, let Your promise to my father David now come true. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 15:8-15

When 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 renovated the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 17:3-9

Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the former ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals

2 Chronicles 19:4-10

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 33:15-16

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 34:1-33

Josiah was eight years old when he became king and reigned 31 years in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 5:14-19

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah—from the twentieth year until his thirty-second year, 12 years—I and my associates never ate from the food allotted to the governor.

Isaiah 23:18

But her profits and wages will be dedicated to the Lord. They will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live in the Lord’s presence, to provide them with ample food and sacred clothing.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
They will bow down to you
with their faces to the ground,
and lick the dust at your feet.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh;
those who put their hope in Me
will not be put to shame.

Isaiah 60:5-16

Then you will see and be radiant,
and your heart will tremble and rejoice,
because the riches of the sea will become yours
and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

Acts 13:36

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

Romans 15:18-19

For I would not dare say anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because an obligation is placed on me. And woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be arrogant or to set their hope on the uncertainty of wealth, but on God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.

2 Timothy 2:6

The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

2 Timothy 4:5-8

But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

3 John 1:5-8

Dear friend, you are showing faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers, especially when they are strangers.