Matthew 25:16

The Parable Of The Talents

¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately. ¹⁶ The one who had received the five talents went out [and] traded with them and gained five more. ¹⁷ In the same way the one [who had] the two gained two more.

The Twelve

2 Samuel 7:1-3

It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.)

1 Chronicles 13:1-3

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

1 Chronicles 22:1-19

Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel."

1 Chronicles 28:2-17

And King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. {I myself wanted} to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build.

2 Chronicles 1:9-10

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

2 Chronicles 15:8-15

And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 17:3-9

And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals,

2 Chronicles 19:4-10

And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and returned and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 31:20-21

And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what [is] good and what [is] right and what [is] faithful before Yahweh his God.

2 Chronicles 33:15-16

And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 34:1-33

Josiah [was] eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 5:14-19

Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes--twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food [allowance] of the governor.

Isaiah 23:18

And this shall happen: her merchandise and her harlot's wages [will be] set apart for Yahweh; it will not be stored up, and it will not be hoarded, but her merchandise will be for those who live before the {presence} of Yahweh, for eating to satiation and for fine clothing.

Isaiah 49:23

And kings shall be your {guardians}, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, {faces} [to the] ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I [am] Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 60:5-16

Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because [the] abundance of [the] sea shall fall upon you; [the] wealth of [the] nations shall come to you.

Acts 13:36

For David, [after] serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with} his fathers, and experienced decay.

Romans 15:18-19

For I will not dare to speak about anything except [that] which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

For if I proclaim the gospel, it is not to me a reason for boasting, for necessity is imposed on me. For woe is to me if I do not proclaim 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, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmer who works hard must [be] the first to receive a share of the crops.

2 Timothy 4:5-8

But you, be self-controlled in all [things], bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

3 John 1:5-8

Dear friend, you act faithfully [in] whatever you do for the brothers, {even though they are strangers}.