Then he that had received the five talents, went and bestowed them, and won other five.
and when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which ought him ten thousand talents:
Likewise he that received ij. gained other ij.
He called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds saying unto them: Buy and sell till I come:
For David after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.
But by the faveour of God I am that I am. And his faveour which is in me was not in vain: but I laboured more abundantly than they all, not I, but the faveour of God which is with me.
The husbandman that laboureth must first receive of the fruits.