Bible Verses About The Gifts of God

"Therefore, I tell you, don't wor y about your life -- what you will eat or drink; or about your body -- what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds flying about! They neither plant nor harvest, nor do they gather food into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to his life?

"And why be anxious about clothing? Think about the fields of wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread,

yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

If this is how God clothes grass in the field -- which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven -- won't he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!

"So don't be anxious, asking, `What will we eat?,' `What will we drink?' or `How will we be clothed?'

For it is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

To one he gave five talents [equivalent to a hundred years' wages]; to another, two talents; and to another, one talent -- to each according to his ability. Then he left.

The one who had received five talents immediately went out, invested it and earned another five.

Similarly, the one given two earned another two.

But the one given one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

"After a long time, the master of those servants returned to settle accounts with them.

The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the other five and said, `Sir, you gave me five talents; here, I have made five more.'

His master said to him, `Excellent! You are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

Also the one who had received two came forward and said, `Sir, you gave me two talents; here, I have made two more.'

His master said to him, `Excellent! you are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'

"Now the one who had received one talent came forward and said, `I knew you were a hard man. You harvest where you didn't plant and gather where you didn't sow seed.

I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here! Take what belongs to you!'

`You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, `So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!

Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.

For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.

As for this worthless servant, throw him out in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!'