Matthew 25:16

The Parable Of The Talents

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. ¹⁶ Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. ¹⁷ So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

The Twelve

2 Samuel 7:1-3

Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,

1 Chronicles 13:1-3

David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.

1 Chronicles 22:1-19

Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

1 Chronicles 28:2-17

Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.

2 Chronicles 1:9-10

O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

2 Chronicles 15:8-15

As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 17:3-9

The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

2 Chronicles 19:4-10

Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 33:15-16

And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

2 Chronicles 34:1-33

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 5:14-19

Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.

Isaiah 23:18

Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the LORD. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame."

Isaiah 60:5-16

Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

Romans 15:18-19

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience--by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. 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 toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

2 Timothy 2:6

It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.

2 Timothy 4:5-8

As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

3 John 1:5-8

Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,