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1 Peter 4:10

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Each of you has received a gift that you can use to serve others. You should use it as something that God has trusted you with. These gifts come in many forms.

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Even the Son of Man didn’t come to be served, but to serve others and to give his life to set many people free.”

God isn’t unfair. He won’t forget what you’ve done and the love you’ve shown him as you’ve helped his people and as you keep on helping them.

But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace wasn’t wasted on me. No, I worked harder than all the other apostles—though it wasn’t me doing the work. God’s grace was with me.

God has given me the grace to lay a foundation as a wise builder. Now someone else is building on it. But each one should build carefully.

So Christ himself has given apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers as gifts to the church.

They were glad to do it, and it acknowledges their debt of gratitude. After all, if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they should also share their own earthly blessings with the Jews.

Because a church leader takes care of God’s family, he must be blameless. He must not push people around, or get angry easily, or get drunk, or try to get money by cheating people.

I’m less than the least of all the Lord’s people. But he gave me the grace to preach to the Gentiles about the unlimited riches that Christ gives.

The Lord answered, “Suppose a master gives one of his servants the job of giving the other servants their food at the right time, as a faithful and wise manager.

Who thinks you’re different from anyone else? What do you have that wasn’t given to you? And if it was given to you, why do you brag as though it came from you?

He sent for ten of his slaves and gave each of them about three months’ worth of wages. ‘Put this money to work until I come back,’ he said.

Another was Joanna, the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household. A woman named Susanna and many others were also there. These women were using their own money to support Jesus and the 12 disciples.

As people who work together with God, we ask you not to receive God’s grace and then do nothing with it.

But right now I’m heading to Jerusalem to serve the Lord’s people there.

“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty and not help you? When did we see that you were a stranger, or that you needed clothes, or that you were sick or in prison, and not help you?’

Be like the Son of Man, who didn’t come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life to set people free.”

May he find mercy from the Lord on the day Jesus returns as judge! You know very well how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.

“Suppose a master puts one of his slaves in charge of the other slaves and tells him to give them their food at the right time. The master would want to choose a faithful and wise slave to do that.

This good news of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.

I don’t really need to write to you about giving in order to help the Lord’s people.

There will be terrible suffering in those days, worse than any other time from the beginning of the world until now, and there will never be anything like it again.

After you’ve suffered for a little while, the God of all grace will restore you and make you strong, firm, and steadfast. He has called you to share in his eternal glory in Christ.

With the help of Silas, who I consider to be a faithful brother, I’ve written you this short letter to encourage you and to confirm that this is the true grace of God. Remain strong in it.

The one with the two bags of gold earned two more.




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