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God-given Talents
Matthew 25:14-30 ESV / 82 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. …
Exodus 35:31 ESV / 78 helpful votes
And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 61 helpful votes
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Romans 12:6 ESV / 55 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Romans 12:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
John 15:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Matthew 25:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Peter 4:10-11 ESV / 25 helpful votes
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 21 helpful votes
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; …
Romans 12:6-8 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Ephesians 4:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Psalm 119:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
Romans 12:3-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; …
Exodus 35:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes
“Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded:
James 1:17 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
Ephesians 4:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
Psalm 119:130 ESV / 15 helpful votes
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes
So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
Romans 12:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 14 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Exodus 36:1-2 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the Lord has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the Lord has commanded.” And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 11 helpful votes
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, …
1 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
Luke 12:48 ESV / 11 helpful votes
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes
To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Matthew 25:21 ESV / 10 helpful votes
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
Hebrews 3:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
Ephesians 4:10-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
2 Corinthians 8:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1 Corinthians 12:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes
But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
1 Corinthians 12:12-27 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …
1 Corinthians 12:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
1 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
Romans 12:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,
Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. …
Matthew 5:14-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes
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 Corinthians 12:30 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
1 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes
To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
1 Corinthians 1:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes
That in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—
John 6:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
Matthew 5:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
1 Corinthians 12:31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:12-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. …
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 7 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Mark 12:28-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Matthew 25:34 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 25:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Matthew 25:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
Matthew 25:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
1 Peter 5:1-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” …
James 4:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
Galatians 2:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.
1 Corinthians 4:6-7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
1 Corinthians 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 14:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Romans 12:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Luke 19:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’
Mark 12:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Matthew 25:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
Matthew 25:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
Matthew 25:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
Matthew 25:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
Matthew 18:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes
When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Psalm 27:1-14 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. …
Exodus 20:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“You shall have no other gods before me.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,
Ephesians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
1 Corinthians 12:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
Mark 8:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Matthew 25:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes
So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
1 Corinthians 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
Romans 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
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