Matthew 25:16

The Parable Of The Talents

¹⁵ And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his faculty, and straightway took his journey. ¹⁶ Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. ¹⁷ And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two.

The Twelve

2 Samuel 7:1-3

And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

1 Chronicles 13:1-3

And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds and with all the princes.

1 Chronicles 22:1-19

Then David said, This shall be the house of the LORD God, and this shall be the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:2-17

Then David, the king, stood up upon his feet and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had 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 had made ready for the building.

2 Chronicles 1:9-10

Now, O LORD God, let thy word unto David, my father, be established, for thou hast placed me as king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

2 Chronicles 15:8-15

And when Asa heard the words and prophecy of Oded, the prophet, he was comforted and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin and out of the cities which he had taken in Mount Ephraim and repaired the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 17:3-9

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the first ways of his father David and sought not unto the Baalim

2 Chronicles 19:4-10

And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem, and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah and wrought that which was good and right and true before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 33:15-16

Likewise, he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem and cast them out of the city.

2 Chronicles 34:1-33

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

Nehemiah 5:14-19

Moreover, from the day that I was appointed by the king to be their captain in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the captain.

Isaiah 23:18

But her profit and her hire shall be consecrated unto the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up for her profit shall be for those that dwell before the LORD, to eat until they are filled and to dress honourably.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their princesses thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for those that wait for me shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 60:5-16

Then thou shall see, and thou shall shine, and thine heart shall marvel, and be enlarged because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall have come unto thee.

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep and was gathered unto his fathers and saw corruption;

Romans 15:18-19

For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, unto the obedience of the Gentiles, with word and with deed,

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is 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 towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Charge those that are rich in this world, that they not be highminded, not placing their hope in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

2 Timothy 2:6

The husbandman, in order to receive the fruits, must first work hard.

2 Timothy 4:5-8

But watch thou in all things, labour, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill thy ministry.

3 John 1:5-8

Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatever thou doest regarding the brethren and with the strangers,