Bible verses about "stewardship" | Great

²² He that is vertuous, leaueth an enheritaunce vnto hys chylders children and the ryches of the synner is layed vp for the iust.

¹⁰ Bringe euery Tithe into my barne, that there maye be meat in myne house: and proue me withall (sayeth the Lorde of hoostes) yf I wyll not open the wyndowes of heauen vnto you, and poure you out a blessyng with plenteousnesse.

⁴² And the Lorde sayde: who is a faythfull and wise stewarde, whom his Lorde shall make ruler ouer his housholde, to geue them their duetie of meat in due season: ⁴³ happy is that seruaunt, whom his Lorde when he commeth; shall fynde so doing. ⁴⁴ Of a trueth I saye vnto you, that he will make him ruler ouer all that he hath. ⁴⁵ But and yf the seruaunt saye in his herte. My Lorde will deferre his comminge (and shall beginne to smite seruauntes and maydens, and to eate and drincke, and to be droncken) ⁴⁶ the Lorde of that seruaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware, and will hewe him in peces, and geue him his rewarde with the vnbeleuers.

²⁸ Which of you disposed to buylde a toure, sytteth not downe before, and counteth the cost, whether he haue sufficient to performe it?

²⁷ Iohn answered, & sayde: a man can receaue nothinge, except it be geuen him from heauen.

⁷ For a bysshope must be blamesse, as the stewarde of God: not stubborne, not angrye not geuen to moch wyne, no fyghter, not geuen to fylthy lucre:

⁷ For we brought nothynge into the worlde, nether maye we cary any thynge out. ⁸ But when we haue fode and rayment we must ther with be content.

¹⁷ Charge them which are ryche in this world, that they be not hye mynded, ner trust in vncertayne ryches, but in the lyuinge God (which geueth vs aboundauntly all thynges to enioye them) ¹⁸ that they do good: that they be riche in good workes: that they be redy to geue & gladly to distribute, ¹⁹ laying vp in store for them selues a good fundacion against the tyme to come, that they maye obtayne eternall lyfe.

³ Commytte thy worckes vnto the Lorde and loke what thou deuysest, it shall prospere.

¹¹ So then, yf ye haue not ben faythfull in the vnryghteous mammon, who wyll beleue you in that which is true?

¹⁵ The Lord God also toke Adam, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he myght dresse and kepe it.

¹⁴ Lykewise as a certeine man ready to take his iorney to a straunge countre, called his seruauntes, & delyuered vnto them hys goodes. ¹⁵ And vnto one he gaue .v. talentes, to another .ij. & to another one: to euery man after his habilite, & streight waye departed. ¹⁶ Then he that had receaued the fyue talentes, went, & occupied wt the same, & wanne other fyue talentes. ¹⁷ Lykewyse also, he that receaued two, gayned other two. ¹⁸ But he that receaued that one, went & dygged in the erth, and hid his Lordes money. ¹⁹ After a longe season, the Lorde of those seruauntes came, and rekened wyth them. ²⁰ And so he that had receaued fyue talentes came, & brought other fyue talentes, sayinge: Sir, thou delyueredst vnto me fyue talentes: beholde, I haue gayned with them fyue talentes moo: ²¹ His Lord sayde vnto him: well thou good and faythfull seruaunt. Thou hast bene faythfull ouer fewe thinges, I wyll make the ruler ouer many thinges: entre thou into the ioye of thy Lorde. ²² He also that had receaued two talentes, came and sayde: Sir, thou delyueredst vnto me two talentes: beholde, I haue wone two other talentes with them: ²³ his Lord sayd vnto him: well good & faythfull seruaunt. Thou hast bene faythfull ouer fewe thinges. I will make the ruler ouer many thinges: Entre thou into the ioye of thy Lorde. ²⁴ Then he whych had receaued the one talent, came, & sayd: Sir I knewe the that thou art an harde man: reaping where thou hast not sowen, & gathering where thou hast not strawed, ²⁵ and therfore was I afrayde, & went, and hyd thy talent in the erth: lo, there thou hast that thine is. ²⁶ His lord answered & sayd vnto him thou euyll & slowthfull seruaunt, thou knewest, that I reape where I sowed not, & gather, where I haue not strawed: ²⁷ thou oughtest therfore to haue delyuered my money to the exchaungers, & then at my commynge shulde I haue receaued myne awne with vauntage. ²⁸ Take therfore the talent from hym, & geue it vnto hym which hath ten talentes. ²⁹ For vnto euery one that hath shalbe geuen, and he shall haue aboundance: But he that hath not, from hym shalbe taken awaye, euen that which he hath. ³⁰ And cast the vnprofytable seruaunt into vtter dercknes there shalbe wepinge and gnasshinge of teeth.

²³ And whatsoeuer ye do, do it hertely, as, though ye dyd it to the Lord, and not vnto men:

⁶ This yet I saye: he which soweth lytell, shal reape lytell: & he that soweth (in geuyng) largelye and frelye, shall reape plenteouslye: ⁷ And let euery man do, accordinge as he hath purposed in hys herte, not groudgyngly, or of necessyte. For God loueth a chearfull geuer.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God sayd vnto them: Growe and increace and replenyshe the erth, and subdue it: and haue dominion of the fish of the see, and foule of the aire: and of euery lyuing thyng that moueth vpon the earth.

¹⁰ As euery man hath receaued the gyfte, euen so mynister the same one to another, as good mynisters of the manyfolde grace of God.