Bible verses about "trustees" | BBE

⁷ Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.

⁵ Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

⁴ Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

³ In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

¹ Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day. ² And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food. ³ Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business. ⁴ Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word. ⁵ And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew: ⁶ These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them. ⁷ And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith. ⁸ And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen. ¹⁰ But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit. ¹¹ Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing. ¹² And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin, ¹³ And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law: ¹⁴ For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses. ¹⁵ And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

¹⁰ The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

⁴² And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

¹ Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day. ² And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food. ³ Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business. ⁴ Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word. ⁵ And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew: ⁶ These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.

¹³ Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

² The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

¹⁴ And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John; ² Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw. ³ A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near. ⁴ John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat; ⁵ And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood; ⁶ And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it. ⁷ See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it. ⁸ I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all. ⁹ I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus. ¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and a great voice at my back, as of a horn, came to my ears, ¹¹ Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea. ¹² And turning to see the voice which said these words to me, I saw seven gold vessels with lights burning in them; ¹³ And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts. ¹⁴ And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; ¹⁵ And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters. ¹⁶ And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength. ¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one; ¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell. ¹⁹ Put in writing, then, the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will be after these; ²⁰ The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches. ²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

² If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour, ³ Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things, ⁴ Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance, ⁵ Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong. ⁶ Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing; giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you: ⁷ And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done

¹⁰ And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.

⁵ Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. ⁶ In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

¹⁶ For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

¹⁹ And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

² But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

¹⁰ Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;

³ Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.

¹⁴ For it is as when a man, about to take a journey, got his servants together, and gave them his property. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey. ¹⁶ Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more. ¹⁷ In the same way he who had been given the two got two more. ¹⁸ But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place. ¹⁹ Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them. ²⁰ And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²² And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more. ²³ His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord. ²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work: ²⁵ And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours. ²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work, ²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest? ²⁸ Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.