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Noun oikonomia (management) in the Gospels-Acts
(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Luke
| 16: 2 | So he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management (oikonomia), because you cannot be my manager any longer.' |
| 16: 3 | Then the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking the management (oikonomia) position away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. |
| 16: 4 | I have decided what to do so that, when I am dismissed from the management (oikonomia) position, people may welcome me into their homes.' |
1 Corinthians
| 9: 17 | For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with management (oikonomia). |
Colossians
| 1: 25 | I became its servant according to God's management (oikonomia) that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, |
Ephesians
| 1: 10 | as management (oikonomia) for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. |
| 3: 2 | for surely you have already heard of the management (oikonomia) of God's grace that was given me for you, |
| 3: 9 | and to make everyone see what is management (oikonomia) of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; |
1 Timothy
| 1: 4 | and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than management (oikonomia) of God that is known by faith. |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 22: 19 | And thou shalt be removed from thy management (oikonomia), and from thy place. |
| 22: 21 | and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy management (oikonomia) into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda. |
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