23 Bible Verses about Missionaries

"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

and undefiled before our God and Father, to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and ever to keep himself unspotted from the world.

"'I was naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to see me.'

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow laborers in the cause of Jesus Christ,

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

Notwithstanding, you have acted nobly in making yourselves comrades in my trouble. And you very well know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving. For even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent once and again for my needs.

and Urbanus, my fellow toiler in Christ; and Stachys, my dear, dear friend.

They have borne testimony to your love before the church. You will do well to speed them on their way worthily of God;

Let your speech be always gracious, with a savor of salt, and learn how to give every man a fitting answer.

From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back, let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

"So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

So then let is eagerly pursue the things that make for peace and the upbuilding of each other.

Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

"So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world, holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing.

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

But when the chief priests and the Scribes saw the wonderful works he did, and the boys who were shouting in the Temple Courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they asked him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Surely," said Jesus, "and have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?"

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

and yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

So confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. For the fervent prayer of a righteous man is mighty in its working.

Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

Keep on praying for me. I am persuaded that I have a clear conscience, and I desire in every way to live nobly.

"And he summoned ten slaves of his, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, "'Trade with these until I come.'

"For it is like a man going into another country, who summoned his slaves, and committed his property to their care.

For I can testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, of their own free will, too, they have given help.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light??10 you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

"I tell you," he answered, "that if these should hold their peace, the very stones would cry out."

Then those who had been scattered by the trouble that arose over Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch; but they preached the word to none except Jews. Some of them, however, were Cyprians and Cyrenaeans, who, on reaching Antioch, began to tell the Greeks also the Good News concerning the Lord Jesus.

So those who were scattered abroad were going everywhere preaching the word.

And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."

"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died; and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength.

And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.

Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any one preaches, let him always preach as one who utters God's truth; if any one serves another, let it be with the strength which God supplies; so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

"Every one, then, who will confess me before men, I also will confess before my Father who is in heaven.

In this way Joseph, whom the apostles called Barnabas ("Son of Encouragement" is what it means), who was a native Cyprus, sold a farm which he had, and brought the price, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One). He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon an ungodly world;

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him they took him home and explained to him more accurately the way of God.

Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in a loud voice,

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, a learned man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about everywhere doing good, and curing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

So he went and began to publish abroad in the District of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and every one was astonished and all men marveled.

"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

and after there had been a long discussion, Peter rose and said: "Brothers, you know how a good while ago God made choice among you, that from my lips the Gentiles were to hear the message of the gospel and believe.

So when they had brought their boats to land they left everything and followed him.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

So those who were scattered abroad were going everywhere preaching the word.