Matthew 25:15
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15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
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- Matthew 25:15 Greek five talents . . . two talents . . . one talent; also throughout this parable; a talent was worth about 20 years of a day labourer’s wage.
Matthew 25:19
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19 ‘After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.
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Mark 13:36
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36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.
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Matthew 25:25
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25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.”
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John 15:6
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6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
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Malachi 2:7
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7 ‘For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth.
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Romans 15:15-16
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15 Yet I have written to you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 12:1
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A living sacrifice
12 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship.
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1 Peter 2:5
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5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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- 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit
2 Corinthians 4:13
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13 It is written: ‘I believed; therefore I have spoken.’[a] Since we have that same spirit of[b] faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
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- 2 Corinthians 4:13 Psalm 116:10 (see Septuagint)
- 2 Corinthians 4:13 Or Spirit-given
Hebrews 10:38
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38 And,
‘But my righteous[a] one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back.’[b]
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- Hebrews 10:38 Some early manuscripts But the righteous
- Hebrews 10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)
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