Bible verses about "trustees" | MNT

¹⁰ "The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

⁴² and they stedfastly continued in the teaching of the apostles, and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers.

¹ "Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

¹ Now in these days while the number of the disciples was multiplying, the Grecian Jews began to murmur against the Hebrews, because their widows were habitually overlooked in the distribution of alms. ² Then the Twelve called the general body of the disciples together, and said to them. "It is not fitting for us to leave off preaching the Word of God, and minister at tables. ³ "So, brothers, find from among your own number seven men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them over this business. ⁴ "But we will give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word." ⁵ This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch. ⁶ These men they presented to the apostles who, when they had prayed, laid their hands upon them. ⁷ And the word of the Lord continued to spread; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was increasing exceedingly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith. ⁸ Meanwhile Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen, ¹⁰ but were unable to withstand the wisdom and spirit with which he used to speak. ¹¹ Then they instigated some to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemy against Moses and against God;" and in this way they excited the people. ¹² The elders and the scribes rushed upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the Sanhedrin. ¹³ They also set up false witnesses who testified. "This fellow is continually talking against the Holy Place and against the law. ¹⁴ "For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which were handed down to us by Moses." ¹⁵ Then all who were sitting in the council at once fixed their eyes upon him, and saw his face like the face of an angel.

¹³ Now the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may be overflowing with hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹ Now in these days while the number of the disciples was multiplying, the Grecian Jews began to murmur against the Hebrews, because their widows were habitually overlooked in the distribution of alms. ² Then the Twelve called the general body of the disciples together, and said to them. "It is not fitting for us to leave off preaching the Word of God, and minister at tables. ³ "So, brothers, find from among your own number seven men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them over this business. ⁴ "But we will give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word." ⁵ This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch. ⁶ These men they presented to the apostles who, when they had prayed, laid their hands upon them.

² The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

¹⁴ Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

¹ The unveiling apocalypse of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must soon come to pass; and he sent and made it known by his angel to his slave John. ² He bore witness of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all the things that he saw. ³ Blessed is he who reads, and they who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep what is written in it. For the crisis is at hand. ⁴ From John to the seven churches that are in Asia the Roman Province. Grace to you, and peace from Him that is and was and is to be, and from the Seven Spirits that are before his throne, ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins in his own blood; ⁶ and has made us to be a kingdom of priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever, Amen. ⁷ Behold, he is about to come among the clouds; and every eye will see him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. So shall it be, Amen. ⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. ⁹ I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard a loud voice behind me, like a trumpet, ¹¹ saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea." ¹² And I turned to see the Voice which was speaking to me, and as I turned I saw seven golden candlesticks; ¹³ and in the midst of the candlesticks One like to a son of man, clothed with a robe down to the feet, and with a golden girdle round his breast. ¹⁴ His head and his hair were as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, ¹⁵ and his feet like burnished brass, as if molten in a furnace; and his voice like the voice of many waters. ¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars; and out of mouth went a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was as the sun shining in his strength. ¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying. "Fear not; I am the first and the last, and the Living One. ¹⁸ I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore; and hold the keys of death and of Hades. ¹⁹ So write the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things that will come to pass hereafter. ²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches." ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever trusts in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁹ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as it has pleased him.

¹⁰ Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

² but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

¹⁴ "For it is like a man going into another country, who summoned his slaves, and committed his property to their care. ¹⁵ "To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one—to each according to his individual ability—and then set out on his travels. ¹⁶ "At once the man who had received the five talents went out and traded with them, and made five talents more. ¹⁷ "In the same way the one who got two talents made another two. ¹⁸ "But he who had received the one talent went off, and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master's money. ¹⁹ "After a long time the master of those slaves came, and demanded a reckoning with them. ²⁰ "The man who had received the five talents came, bringing five more, and said: "'Master, five talents you entrusted to me; see, I have gained five more.' ²¹ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' replied his master; 'You have been faithful over many things. Enter into your master's joy.' ²² "The second, who had received the two talents, came up and said: "'Master, it was two talents that you entrusted to me; see, I have gained two more.' ²³ "'Well done, good and faithful slave,' his master replied, 'You have been faithful over many things; enter into your master's joy.' ²⁴ "Then the man who had received the one talent came up and said: "'Master, I knew you were a hard man, reaping where you had not sown, and gathering where you had not scattered; ²⁵ "so I was afraid; I went away and buried your talent in the earth. There, you have what belongs to you!' ²⁶ "'You wicked and lazy slave,' said his master. 'You say you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not scattered?' ²⁷ Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest. ²⁸ So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man who has ten talents.