Acts 13:2
While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.
2 Timothy 1:11
For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.
Acts 8:29
Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and join this chariot."
Acts 14:26
From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.
Acts 22:21
Then he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"
Romans 1:1
From Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.
1 Corinthians 12:11
It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.
Galatians 1:15
But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased
Numbers 8:11-14
and Aaron is to offer the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the Israelites, that they may do the work of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the Lord's covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings in his name, as they do to this very day.
1 Samuel 2:11
Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of Eli the priest.
1 Chronicles 16:4
He appointed some of the Levites to serve before the ark of the Lord, to offer prayers, songs of thanks, and hymns to the Lord God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 16:37-43
David left Asaph and his colleagues there before the ark of the Lord's covenant to serve before the ark regularly and fulfill each day's requirements,
Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
Matthew 6:16
"When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.
Matthew 9:14-15
Then John's disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
Matthew 9:38
Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest."
Luke 2:37
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Luke 10:1
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
Acts 6:4
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
Acts 10:19
While Peter was still thinking seriously about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Look! Three men are looking for you.
Acts 10:30
Cornelius replied, "Four days ago at this very hour, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I was praying in my house, and suddenly a man in shining clothing stood before me
Acts 13:3
Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them off.
Acts 16:6-7
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
Acts 20:28
Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.
Romans 10:15
And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news."
Romans 15:16
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
2 Corinthians 11:27
in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
Galatians 2:8-9
(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)
Ephesians 3:7
I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.
Colossians 4:17
And tell Archippus, "See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord."
1 Timothy 2:7
For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle -- I am telling the truth; I am not lying -- and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2 Timothy 2:2
And entrust what you heard me say in the presence of many others as witnesses to faithful people who will be competent to teach others as well.
2 Timothy 4:5
You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist's work, fulfill your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:11
Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.
Hebrews 5:4
And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.