50 Bible Verses about Ministry

for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,

and there are diversities of services and the same Lord;

And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

for you are manifestly an epistle of Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of hearts of flesh.

For the performance of this service not only supplies the need of the saints, but also abounds with the thanksgivings of many to God;

And the twelve calling the multitude of the disciples, said, It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God to serve tables.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day till now,

if a service [let us labor] in the service, if one teaches, in teaching,

to take the place of this service and apostleship from which Judas fell by transgression to go to his place.

[they] glorifying God on account of the proof of this ministry for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ and the liberality of the contribution to them and to all,

of which I was made a minister according to the dispensation of God given me for you, to complete the word of God,

For if the ministry of condemnation was a glory, much more will the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

But do you be sober in all things, endure evil, do the work of an evangelist, perform fully your ministry.

Luke only is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for [he will be] useful to me for service.

Know you not that those who perform sacred rites eat from the temple? Those who wait on the altar partake of the altar?

of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

You have no part nor inheritance in this work; for your heart is not right before God.

But if the ministry of death engraved in a writing on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses on account of the brightness of his face, which passed away,

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and witness both of what you have seen and [of visions ] in which I will appear to you,

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,

For I speak to you, gentiles. Inasmuch as I am an apostle of the gentiles, I glorify my ministry,

as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

I know your works and love and faith and service and your patience, and your last works more than the first.

but we will attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.

as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

for a great and effectual door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work.

And say to Archippus, Attend to your ministry which you received in the Lord, to perform it fully.

and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susannah, and many others, who served them with their property.

I have therefore cause of boasting in Christ Jesus in respect to things relating to God;

If any man serves me let him follow me; and where I am there also shall my servant be. If anyone serves me, him will the Father honor.

So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular.