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Appendix C
Scriptures on Stewardship

Matthew 25:14-30

King James Version (KJV)

14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country,
who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one;
to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his
journey.

16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the
same, and made them other five talents.

17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.

18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his
lord's money.

19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth
with them.

20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five
talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have
gained beside them five talents more.

21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents
beside them.

23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things:
enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I
knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown,
and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there
thou hast that is thine.

26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I
have not strawed:

27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers,
and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten
talents.

29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath.

30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 16:1-13

King James Version (KJV)

16 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man,
which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had
wasted his goods.

2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee?
give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord
taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship,
they may receive me into their houses.

5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the
first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take
thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An
hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and
write fourscore.

8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done
wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light.

9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting
habitations.

10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he
that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who
will commit to your trust the true riches?

12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who
shall give you that which is your own?

13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon.

Proverbs 3:9-10

King James Version (KJV)

9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine
increase:

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out
with new wine.

Proverbs 22:7

King James Version (KJV)

7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

2 Corinthians 10:12

King James Version (KJV)

12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

King James Version (KJV)

11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to
work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye
may have lack of nothing.

1 Corinthians 16:2

King James Version (KJV)

2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store,
as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

2 Corinthians 9:6-8

King James Version (KJV)

6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and
he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not
grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always
having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Colossians 3:23-24

King James Version (KJV)

23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Luke 6:38

King James Version (KJV)

38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down,
and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom.
For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to
you again.

3 John 1:2

King James Version (KJV)

2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Matthew 6:33

King James Version (KJV)

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you.

Deuteronomy 28:2-8

King James Version (KJV)

2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and
the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.

7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways.

8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,
and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deuteronomy 28:11

King James Version (KJV)

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Deuteronomy 28:12

King James Version (KJV)

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine
hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Proverbs 11:24-25

King James Version (KJV)

24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that
withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be
watered also himself.

Mark 10:29-30

King James Version (KJV)

29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man
that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,
or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's.

30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with
persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Malachi 3:8-12

King James Version (KJV)

8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have
we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole
nation.

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will
not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that
there shall not be room enough to receive it.

11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy
the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the
time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome
land, saith the LORD of hosts.

Luke 16:10

King James Version (KJV)

10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he
that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

King James Version (KJV)

19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-20

King James Version (KJV)

10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth
abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what
good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with
their eyes?

12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much:
but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches
kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and
there is nothing in his hand.

15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as
he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away
in his hand.

16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he
go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and
wrath with his sickness.

18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat
and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under
the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath
given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in
his labour; this is the gift of God.

20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God
answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Hebrews 7:2-9

King James Version (KJV)

2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by
interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem,
which is, King of peace;

3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither
beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;
abideth a priest continually.

4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch
Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the
priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according
to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of
Abraham:

6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of
Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of
whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in
Abraham.

Numbers 18:12-13

King James Version (KJV)

12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat,
the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I
given thee.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the
LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

Deuteronomy 18:4

King James Version (KJV)

4 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first
of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

Genesis 14:17-20

King James Version (KJV)

17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the
slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the
valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he
was the priest of the most high God.

19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high
God, possessor of heaven and earth:

20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Leviticus 27:30

King James Version (KJV)

30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the
fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.

Deuteronomy 14:22-23,28

King James Version (KJV)

22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field
bringeth forth year by year.

23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he
shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine,
and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou
mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

28 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine
increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

2 Chronicles 31:5-6

King James Version (KJV)

5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel
brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and
of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in
abundantly.

6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities
of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe
of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid
them by heaps.

Luke 12:30-48

King James Version (KJV)

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your
Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

31 But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be
added unto you.

32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you
the kingdom.

33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax
not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief
approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

35 Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may
open unto him immediately.

37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find
watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them
to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch,
and find them so, blessed are those servants.

39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour
the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his
house to be broken through.

40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour
when ye think not.

41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or
even to all?

42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom
his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of
meat in due season?

43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so
doing.

44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he
hath.

45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and
drink, and to be drunken;

46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for
him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and
will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself,
neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be
beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall
be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they
will ask the more.

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