Matthew 25:16
The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work and gained five more.
2 Samuel 7:1-3
The king settled into his palace, for the Lord gave him relief from all his enemies on all sides.
1 Chronicles 13:1-3
David consulted with his military officers, including those who led groups of a thousand and those who led groups of a hundred.
1 Chronicles 22:1-19
David then said, "This is the place where the temple of the Lord God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel."
1 Chronicles 28:2-17
King David rose to his feet and said: "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the Lord's covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.
2 Chronicles 1:9-10
Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David be realized, for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.
2 Chronicles 15:8-15
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord's temple.
2 Chronicles 17:3-9
The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David's footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,
2 Chronicles 19:4-10
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow the Lord God of their ancestors.
2 Chronicles 31:20-21
This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.
2 Chronicles 33:15-16
He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord's temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord's temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
2 Chronicles 34:1-33
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 5:14-19
From the day that I was appointed governor in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes -- twelve years in all -- neither I nor my relatives ate the food allotted to the governor.
Isaiah 23:18
Her profits and earnings will be set apart for the Lord. They will not be stored up or accumulated, for her profits will be given to those who live in the Lord's presence and will be used to purchase large quantities of food and beautiful clothes.
Isaiah 49:23
Kings will be your children's guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
Isaiah 60:5-16
Then you will look and smile, you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride. For the riches of distant lands will belong to you and the wealth of nations will come to you.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,
Romans 15:18-19
For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
1 Corinthians 9:16-23
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them -- yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
1 Timothy 6:17-18
Command those who are rich in this world's goods not to be haughty or to set their hope on riches, which are uncertain, but on God who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.
2 Timothy 2:6
The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.
2 Timothy 4:5-8
You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist's work, fulfill your ministry.
3 John 1:5-8
Dear friend, you demonstrate faithfulness by whatever you do for the brothers (even though they are strangers).