Matthew 25:16
Good News Translation
The servant who had received five thousand coins went at once and invested his money and earned another five thousand.

New Revised Standard Version
The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents.

Contemporary English Version
As soon as the man had gone, the servant with the 5,000 coins used them to earn 5,000 more.

New American Bible
the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five.

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2 Samuel 7:1-3 And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, . . .

1 Chronicles 13:1-3 David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and with all the commanders. . . .

1 Chronicles 22:1-26:32 Then David said: This is the house of God, And this is the altar for the holocaust of Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:2 And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.

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1 Chronicles 29:1-17 And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God. . . .

2 Chronicles 1:9,10 Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth. . . .

2 Chronicles 15:8-15 And when Asa had heard the words, and the prophecy of Azarias the son of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and took away the idols out of all the land of Juda, and out of Benjamin, and out of the cities of mount Ephraim, which he had taken, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the porch of the Lord. . . .

2 Chronicles 17:3-9 And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim, . . .

2 Chronicles 19:4-10 And Josaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again to the people from Bersabee to mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the Lord the God of their fathers. . . .

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, . . .

2 Chronicles 33:15,16 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city. . . .

2 Chronicles 34:1-35:27 Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem. . . .

Nehemiah 5:14-19 And from the day, in which the king commanded me to be governor in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my brethren did not eat the yearly allowance that was due to the governors. . . .

Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a continuance.

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Isaiah 60:5-16 Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee. . . .

Acts 13:36 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

Romans 15:18,19 For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, . . .

1 Corinthians 9:16-23 For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

2 Timothy 2:6 The husbandman that laboureth must first partake of the fruits.

2 Timothy 4:5-8 But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. . . .

Philemon 1:6,7 That the communication of thy faith may be made evident in the acknowledgment of every good work that is in you in Christ Jesus. . . .

3 John 1:5-8 Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the brethren: and that for strangers, . . .

Context
The Parable of the Talents
15And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey. 16And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five. 17And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two.…
Cross References
Matthew 18:24
And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

Matthew 25:17
And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two.

Luke 19:13
And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come.

Matthew 25:15
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