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In the Bible

Stewardship

Genesis 1:27-30

Adam and Eve - the Creation

 ²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 

²⁷ God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 

²⁸ God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 

²⁹ Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 

³⁰ and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

Genesis 41: 39-43

Joseph in Egypt

³⁹ So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are."

⁴⁰  You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

⁴¹  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

⁴²  Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and pput the gold necklace around his neck.

Joshua 24: 14-18

Joshua in Israel

¹⁴ “Now, therefore,fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord

¹⁵ If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

¹⁶ The people answered and said, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

¹⁷ for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.

¹⁸ The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God.”

There are many more examples of stewardship in the Bible. 

How do Jesus' teachings help us understand what it means to be a steward?

Matthew 12:25

²⁵ And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand."

 1 John 4: 19-20

¹⁹ We love, because He first loved us. 

²⁰ If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 

²¹ And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

1 Corinthians 12: 4-26

  ⁴ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

  ⁵ And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

  ⁶ There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons

  ⁷ But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

  ⁸ For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

  ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

¹⁰ and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

¹¹ But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

¹² For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

¹⁸ But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

¹⁹ If they were all one member, where would the body be?

²⁰ But now there are many members, but one body.

²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

²² On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

²³ and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

²⁴ whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked,

²⁵ so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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