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Matthew 25:15
Matthew 25:15 is verse 15 of Matthew chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he went on his journey.
A talent was worth about twenty years’ wages for a laborer.
King James Version
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
World English Bible
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds (usually used to weigh silver unless otherwise specified)
Read in context
Matthew 25:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
14 For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
15 To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he went on his journey.
16 The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
17 Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 18:24As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.
Luke 12:48But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.
Luke 19:13Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.
Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’