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1 Peter 4:10

Contemporary English Version 1995

Each of you has been blessed with one of God's many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others. So use your gift well.

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The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.

God is always fair. He will remember how you helped his people in the past and how you are still helping them. You belong to God, and he won't forget the love you have shown his people.

But God treated me with undeserved grace! He made me what I am, and his grace wasn't wasted. I worked much harder than any of the other apostles, although it was really God's grace at work and not me.

God treated me with undeserved grace and let me become an expert builder. I laid a foundation on which others have built. But we must each be careful how we build,

Christ chose some of us to be apostles, prophets, missionaries, pastors, and teachers,

This is something they really wanted to do. But sharing their money with the Jews was also like paying back a debt, because the Jews had already shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles.

Church officials are in charge of God's work, and so they must also have a good reputation. They must not be bossy, quick-tempered, heavy drinkers, bullies, or dishonest in business.

I am the least important of all God's people. But God was kind and chose me to tell the Gentiles that because of Christ there are blessings that cannot be measured.

The Lord answered: Who are faithful and wise servants? Who are the ones the master will put in charge of giving the other servants their food supplies at the proper time?

What is so special about you? What do you have that you were not given? And if it was given to you, how can you brag?

But before leaving, he called in ten servants and gave each of them some money. He told them, “Use this to earn more money until I get back.”

Joanna, Susanna, and many others had also used what they owned to help Jesus and his disciples. Joanna's husband Chuza was one of Herod's officials.

We work together with God, and we beg you to make good use of God's gift of undeserved grace.

I am now on my way to Jerusalem to deliver the money that the Lord's followers in Macedonia and Achaia collected for God's needy people.

Then the people will ask, “Lord, when did we fail to help you when you were hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in jail?”

The Son of Man did not come to be a slave master, but a slave who will give his life to rescue many people.

I pray that the Lord Jesus will ask God to show mercy to Onesiphorus on the day of judgment. You know how much he helped me in Ephesus.

Who are faithful and wise servants? Who are the ones the master will put in charge of giving the other servants their food supplies at the proper time?

When the good news about the kingdom has been preached all over the world and told to all nations, the end will come.

I don't need to write you about the money you plan to give for God's people.

This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.

But God shows undeserved kindness to everyone. That's why he appointed Christ Jesus to choose you to share in his eternal glory. You will suffer for a while, but God will make you complete, steady, strong, and firm.

Silvanus helped me write this short letter, and I consider him a faithful follower of the Lord. I wanted to encourage you and tell you how kind God really is, so you will keep on having faith in him.

The servant who had 2,000 coins did the same with his money and earned 2,000 more.




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