Bible verses about "trustees" | Darby

⁷ Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.

⁵ Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will bring [it] to pass;

⁴ Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

³ In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee.

¹⁰ The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have [it] abundantly.

¹ But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration. ² And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to [them], said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables. ³ Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men, well reported of, full of [the] [Holy] Spirit and wisdom, whom we will establish over this business: ⁴ but *we* will give ourselves up to prayer and the ministry of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch, ⁶ whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them. ⁷ And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith. ⁸ And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and great signs among the people. ⁹ And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called of freedmen, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen. ¹⁰ And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. ¹¹ Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God. ¹² And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon [him] they seized him and brought [him] to the council. ¹³ And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us. ¹⁵ And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as [the] face of an angel.

⁴² And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.

¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by [the] power of [the] Holy Spirit.

¹ Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me.

¹ But in those days, the disciples multiplying in number, there arose a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were overlooked in the daily ministration. ² And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to [them], said, It is not right that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables. ³ Look out therefore, brethren, from among yourselves seven men, well reported of, full of [the] [Holy] Spirit and wisdom, whom we will establish over this business: ⁴ but *we* will give ourselves up to prayer and the ministry of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and [the] Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch, ⁶ whom they set before the apostles; and, having prayed, they laid their hands on them.

² The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

²¹ for prophecy was not ever uttered by [the] will of man, but holy men of God spake under the power of [the] Holy Spirit.

¹⁴ And this is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask him anything according to his will he hears us.

¹ Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to shew to his bondmen what must shortly take place; and he signified [it], sending by his angel, to his bondman John, ² who testified the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, all things that he saw. ³ Blessed [is] he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time [is] near. ⁴ John to the seven assemblies which [are] in Asia: Grace to you and peace from [him] who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits which [are] before his throne; ⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood, ⁶ and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him [be] the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen. ⁷ Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen. ⁸ I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith [the] Lord God, he who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. ⁹ I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus. ¹⁰ I became in [the] Spirit on the Lord`s day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet, ¹¹ saying, What thou seest write in a book, and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea. ¹² And I turned back to see the voice which spoke with me; and having turned, I saw seven golden lamps, ¹³ and in the midst of the [seven] lamps [one] like [the] Son of man, clothed with a garment reaching to the feet, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle: ¹⁴ his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire; ¹⁵ and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters; ¹⁶ and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance as the sun shines in its power. ¹⁷ And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead; and he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; *I* am the first and the last, ¹⁸ and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades. ¹⁹ Write therefore what thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to be after these. ²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. -- The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies.

² If any one sin and act unfaithfully against Jehovah, and lie to his neighbour as to an entrusted thing or a deposit or [that in which] he hath robbed or wronged his neighbour, ³ or have found what was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely in anything of all that man doeth, sinning therein; ⁴ then it shall be, if he hath sinned and transgressed, that he shall restore what he robbed or that in which he hath defrauded, or the deposit, or the lost thing which he found, ⁵ or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; and he shall restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto; to [him to] whom it belongeth shall he give it, on the day of his trespass-offering. ⁶ And his trespass-offering shall he bring to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle according to thy valuation, as a trespass-offering, unto the priest. ⁷ And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and it shall be forgiven him concerning anything of all that he hath done so as to trespass therein.

¹⁰ And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

⁵ Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence; ⁶ in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

¹⁹ But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace of God.

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

² but he is under guardians and stewards until the period fixed by the father.

³ Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy thoughts shall be established.

¹⁴ For [it is] as [if] a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his particular ability, and immediately went away out of the country. ¹⁶ And he that had received the five talents went and trafficked with them, and made five other talents. ¹⁷ In like manner also he that [had received] the two, [he also] gained two others. ¹⁸ But he that had received the one went and dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord. ¹⁹ And after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes and reckons with them. ²⁰ And he that had received the five talents came to [him] and brought five other talents, saying, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he also that had received the two talents came to [him] and said, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents besides them. ²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And he also that had received the one talent coming to [him] said, [My] lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where thou hadst not scattered, ²⁵ and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine. ²⁶ And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered; ²⁷ thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest. ²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that has the ten talents: