Scripture identifies certain qualities which are found in good servants and requires that these qualities should be found in believers' service of God.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Qualities found in good servants

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Diligence

1 Kings 11:28
Proverbs 10:4; 22:29
Matthew 25:14-23
1 Corinthians 4:2

pp Lk 19:12-19

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Faithfulness

Exodus 21:5-6
2 Samuel 15:21
2 Chronicles 34:11-12
Nehemiah 13:13
Proverbs 25:13
Daniel 6:4
2 Kings 22:7

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Honesty

Genesis 39:6
2 Kings 12:15
Titus 2:9-10
Ephesians 6:5

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Obedience

Luke 17:10
Colossians 3:22
Genesis 31:40-41

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Perseverance

2 Thessalonians 3:12-13
1 Timothy 6:1-2

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Respect

Malachi 1:6
1 Peter 2:18
Ephesians 6:6-7

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Willingness

1 Chronicles 28:21
Titus 2:9
Genesis 24:9,49

Examples of good servants

Abraham's servant:

2 Samuel 12:18; 23:13-17
2 Kings 5:13

David's servants:

Matthew 8:9

Naaman's servants

a centurion's servants

Genesis 39:4-5

Good servants are often rewarded by their employers

Proverbs 27:18

They are advanced by them

Matthew 25:21,23
Genesis 24:2-4,10

They have their confidence

Genesis 30:27-30; 39:2-4

Good servants often bring blessings on their employers

Genesis 24:7,27; 31:7,42; 39:3,21

Good servants have God with them

Matthew 24:46
Acts 7:9-10

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