Matthew 25:15

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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?

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

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 he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

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.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people’s bodies and souls.

“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.

It shall happen that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud. I will make the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you, cease from me.”

You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ”

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men in strength for the service: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’ ”

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

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.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

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

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”