65 Bible Verses about evangelists, ministry of

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace and who bring good tidings of good things! For they proclaim salvation and say to Zion: Your God reigns as king! (Hebrew: Elohiym' malak': God rules!)

He said to them: I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also. This is why I was sent.

They taught daily in the temple and in every house. They did not cease to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

When they believed what Philip preached about the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene. When they came to Antioch they spoke to the Greeks and preached the Lord Jesus.

How will they preach unless they have been sent? Just as it is written: How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace and who bring good tidings of good things! For they proclaim salvation and say to Zion: Your God reigns as king! (Hebrew: Elohiym' malak': God rules!) (Isaiah 52:7)

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the nations, ministering the good news of God, that the offering of these nations might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Then Philip went to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ to them.

After much discussion Peter got up and said: Men and brothers you know that God made a choice among us, that I would preach the good news to the nations that they may hear and believe.

Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news: not with wisdom of words, lest the stake of Christ be emptied of its effect.

Though I preach the good news I do not brag about it. Preaching the good news is my duty (obligation) and I must do it! It would be terrible if I did not preach the good news!

Brothers, I declared the good news to you. You have received it and should continue strong in it. You will be saved through the good news if you hold fast to the word I preached to you. That way you will not believe in vain.

We did not boast beyond our assignment in other men's labors. Having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be made great among you according to our territory for further abundance. Let us preach the good news to the parts beyond you. Let us not boast in someone else's territory in concerning things ready for our hand.

He commanded us to preach to the people. We testify that he was ordained by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify that through his name whoever believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins.

The next day John was standing with two of his disciples. He looked at Jesus as he walked, and said: Behold, the Lamb of God!

I will send the helper from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father to bear witness of me. You also bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning.

You will receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

God resurrected Jesus and we all witnessed this! He is exalted to the right hand of God. He has received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father. So he poured out what you now see and hear.

Paul went in, for it was his custom. He reasoned with them from the Scriptures for three Sabbath days. He explained and proved that Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. And that Jesus is the Messiah.

We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life. The life was made known and we have seen and testify about it. We declare the life to you. It is the eternal life, which was with the Father and was shown to us. We declare to you what we have seen and heard. This way you may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ!

Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel 2:32) How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach?

After John was locked in prison Jesus went to Galilee and preached the Good News of God to the people. Jesus said: The time has come. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the good news.

You should know, men and brothers that it is through this man Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. Through him all who believe are justified from all things. You could not be justified through the Law of Moses.

He brought them out and asked: Sirs, what must I do to be saved? They said: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house. They spoke the Word of God to him and those in his house.read more.
That very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized. He took them to his house and fed them. They rejoiced along with his entire house, having believed in God.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Then Agrippa said to Paul: In a short time you would persuade (convince) me to become a Christian.

Through whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, respecting his name.

Therefore whether they preached or I preached, you believed.

We know what it means to respect the Lord so we persuade others. God knows us and I hope that you know us in your hearts (consciences).

Being sent by Holy Spirit, they went to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus. They preached the Word of God in the synagogues of the Jews at Salamis. John was also there as an attendant.

After they passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. After they had preached the word in Perga they went down into Attalia.

Paul had a vision that night. In it he saw a Macedonian standing and pleading with him, Come over to Macedonia and help us! After Paul had this vision, we got ready to leave for Macedonia. We decided that God had called us to preach the good news to the people there.

The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of two into every city and place where he was about to go.

He summoned the twelve and sent them forth in pairs. They were given authority over the unclean spirits.

He invited them in to be his guests. The next day Peter went away with them. Brothers accompanied them from Joppa.

Paul and Barnabas entered the synagogue of the Jews at Iconium. There they spoke to a great crowd of Jews and Greeks who became believers.

The Holy Spirit did not let them preach the message in the province of Asia. So they traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

The brothers immediately sent Paul to the sea. Silas and Timothy stayed at Beroea. Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens. He sent orders to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as soon as possible.

and for your fellowship in participation of the good news from the first day until now.

Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist (preacher of the good news), and fulfill your ministry.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision: Do not be afraid, but speak. Do not keep silent! I am with you and no man will harm you. I have many people in this city. He lived there a year and six months teaching the word of God to them.

Paul rented a place to live for two full years and welcomed everyone who came to him. He spread the message about God's Kingdom and taught boldly about the Lord Jesus Christ. And no one stopped him!

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the spiritual gift in you. It was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.

This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit. We always speak, as God wants us to. He has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives (examines our hearts). You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk (praise for selfish gain). We did not use words to cover up greed (insatiable desire for wealth). God is our witness!

Having much affection for you, we were well pleased to impart the good news of God to you and also to share our lives with you. You have become very dear to us. You may remember, brothers, our labor and hardship. We worked day and night that we would not burden any of you when we preached the good news of God to you.

I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or clothes. You know that my own hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

Or is it only Barnabas and I who do not have the right to refrain from secular work?

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.read more.
In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers; In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

They captured the apostles and put them in the common prison.

Holy Spirit warns me that in every city, prison and hardships are facing me there. I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.

Then the military commander came near and laid hold on him. He commanded that he be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.

Pray on my behalf, that ability to speak may be given to me, to make known with boldness the secret of the good news. I am an ambassador in chains who should speak boldly.

They agreed with him and called the apostles. They beat them and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.

The crowd rose up against them. The magistrates ripped their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods. After they were severely beaten, they threw them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safe.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet. His name was Saul.

Jews from Antioch and Iconium took control of the crowd. They persuaded the people to stone Paul. Then they threw him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

He spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He had a dispute with the Greek speaking Jews and they made attempts to kill him.

The entire city was aroused, and the people ran together from all directions. They laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the Temple. Immediately the doors were shut. They were seeking to kill him when tidings came to the military commander of the band that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials that came on me by the plots of the Jews.

After we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, we had the boldness (confidence) in our God to speak the good news of God to you amid much opposition.

I tell the truth in Christ. I do not lie! My conscience bears witness with me in Holy Spirit. I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.