Then Peter said to Him, Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to everyone?

Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.

And if you have not been faithful in what is another man's, who will give you what is your own?

And he said to him, Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will also be able to teach others.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken later,

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.

I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old things.

for I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord; You know that I am deeply fond of You. He said to him, Feed My lambs.

He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, are you deeply fond of Me? Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, Are you deeply fond of Me? And he said to Him, Lord, You discern all things; You know that I am deeply fond of You. Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep.

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual but as to carnal, even as to babes in Christ.

I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able, and even now you are still not able;

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the full true knowledge of the Son of God, to a complete man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

not exercising dominion over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;