Matthew 25:14

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Summary

For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

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And delivered

1 Peter 4:9

Bible References

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“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a

vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert.

So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

And delivered

Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.

Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

Be hospitable to one another without complaint.