Genesis 47:14

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”

The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

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

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.