Bible Verses About The Gifts of God

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

`And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;

and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

`And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe--not much more you, O ye of little faith?

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

`And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;

in like manner also he who received the two, he gained, also he, other two;

and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

`And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.

`His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter;

and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own!

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

`Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,

for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.