What Does the Bible Say About Being A Good Stewart?

Luke 8:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

John 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 24:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Luke 24:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Acts 18:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

John 6:63 ESV / 8 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Mark 14:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

1 John 5:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For there are three that testify:

James 2:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

James 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

James 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Romans 12:17-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Luke 4:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

James 2:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

John 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

John 1:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Luke 24:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Mark 15:27-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Jude 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

James 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

Acts 18:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.

Acts 8:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.

John 14:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

John 14:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

John 10:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

2 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

Acts 17:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Acts 8:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.

Acts 2:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.

John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Luke 16:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.

Mark 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

2 John 1:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

Ephesians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

2 Kings 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

50 Bible Verses about Being A Good Stewart

Luke 8:1-3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 18:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:63 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 14:49 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:17-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 4:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 15:27-29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 18:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:35 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:1-9:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 8:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 John 1:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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