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 own ability. Then he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Immediately the one who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. ¹⁷ In like manner he who got the two gained another two.

The Twelve

2 Samuel 7:1-3

It happened, when the king lived in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

1 Chronicles 13:1-3

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

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 David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people. As for me, it was 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 had prepared for the building.

2 Chronicles 1:9-10

Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

2 Chronicles 15:8-15

When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 17:3-9

The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and 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

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 33:15-16

He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain 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 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 even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Isaiah 23:18

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to the LORD. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."

Isaiah 60:5-16

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; 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 in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was placed with his fathers, and saw decay.

Romans 15:18-19

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I do not proclaim the Good News.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

2 Timothy 4:5-8

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

3 John 1:5-8

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.