Bible verses about "stewardship" | Etheridge

²⁷ Juchanon answered and said to them, A man cannot receive of his own will any thing, unless it be given to him from heaven.

⁴² Jeshu said to him, Who then is that steward, faithful and wise, whom his lord hath established over his service, to give the portion in its time? ⁴³ Blessed that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. ⁴⁴ Assuredly I tell you, He will establish him over all his substance. ⁴⁵ But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord withholdeth to come, and shall begin to beat the servants and the handmaids of his lord, and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunken; ⁴⁶ the lord of that servant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and in an hour which he knoweth not; and shall sunder him, and set him his portion with those who are not faithful.

²⁸ For who of you that willeth to build a tower, and doth not first sit down and reckon the expense of it, whether he have (wherewith) to finish it?

⁷ For a presbyter is bound to be without blame, as the steward of Aloha; he shall not be led by the will of self, nor be irascible, nor a transgressor over wine, neither shall his hand be hasty to strike, nor shall he be a lover of sordid gains.

⁷ For nothing brought we into the world, and we know that nothing we are able to take from it. ⁸ Therefore sufficient to us are food and raiment. [Or, covering.]

¹⁷ The rich of this world instruct, that they be not uplifted in their minds, nor be trustful upon riches which have no security, but upon Aloha the living, who giveth to us all abundantly for our comfort; ¹⁸ and that they perform good works, and become rich in welldoings, and be ready to give and to communicate, ¹⁹ and lay for themselves a good foundation for that which is to be, that they may lay hold on the true life.

¹¹ If, therefore, in the wealth of unrighteousness you have not been faithful, the truth to you who will confide?

¹⁴ FOR as a man who journeyed called his servants, and delivered to them his property: ¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, each man according to his faculty; and forthwith went away. ¹⁶ But he who had received five talents went and traded with them, and gained five others. ¹⁷ Likewise he who (had received) two by trading gained two others. ¹⁸ But he who had received one went, dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord. ¹⁹ After a long time the lord of those servants came, and received from them the account. ²⁰ Then he drew near who had received the five talents, and brought five others, and said, My lord, five talents thou gavest me: behold, five others I have gained by them. ²¹ His lord said to him, It is well, good and faithful servant; over a little thou hast been faithful, over much I will establish thee: enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he of the two talents approached, and said, My lord, two talents thou gavest me: behold, two others I have gained by them. ²³ His lord saith to him, It is well, servant good and faithful; over a little thou hast been faithful, over much will I establish thee: enter into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ But he also drew near who had received the one talent, and said, My lord, I knew thee, that thou wast a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering together from whence thou hadst not dispersed. ²⁵ And I feared, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine own. ²⁶ His lord answered, Thou evil and slothful servant, thou didst know me that I reap where I have not sowed, and collect from whence I have not dispersed. ²⁷ Did it not behove thee to cast my money upon the table, that when I came I might require mine own with its increase? ²⁸ Take therefore from him the talent, and give it unto him who hath ten talents. ²⁹ For unto him who hath shall be given, and it shall be added to him; but he who hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken from him. ³⁰ And the indolent servant cast forth into the darknesses without; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²³ And all that you do, from all your heart do (it), as to our Lord, and not as to men.

⁶ But this [remember], He who soweth with scantiness, with scantiness also reapeth; and he who soweth with blessing, with blessing also shall reap. ⁷ Every man as he hath in his mind: not as of vexation or as of constraint; for a cheerful giver the Lord loveth.

¹⁰ And every man of you the gift which he hath received from Aloha, let him minister thereof unto his neighbours as good stewards of the various grace of Aloha.