54 Bible Verses about Ministry

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

there are varieties of service, but the Lord to be served is the same;

I am always thanking Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into the ministry,

for you are always showing that you are a letter of Christ, produced by my service, written not in ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

Because the service rendered by this sacred offering is not only fully supplying the needs of God's people, but it is also running over with many thanks to God for it.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

So the Twelve called together the whole body of the disciples, and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave off preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation?

for your cooperation in spreading the good news, from the first day you heard it until now.

or of practical service, in the field of service; or of a teacher, in the field of teaching;

to take a share in this service as an apostle, from which Judas fell away to go to his own place."

For through the test you get by doing this service you will continue praising God for your fidelity to your confession of the good news of Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions to them and all others;

In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

For if the service connected with condemnation had such splendor, the service resulting in right standing with God will surely far surpass it in splendor.

But you, on your part, must always keep your head cool, suffer hardship, do your work as a herald of the good news, and so fill your ministry to the brim.

Luke is the only one who is now with me. Pick up Mark and bring him with you, for he is of great service to me,

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

for which I was called to serve in accordance with the gift of God's unmerited favor which was bestowed on me by the exercise of His power--

To keep my ministry from being found fault with, I am trying not to put a single hindrance in anybody's way.

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

You have no share or part in this matter, for your heart is not sincere in the sight of God.

Now if the old religious service which resulted in death, although its law was carved in letters of stone, was introduced with a splendor so great that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on Moses' face because of the splendor that was fading from it,

But, as the case with Him now stands, He has entered upon a priestly service as much superior to theirs as the covenant of which He is the Mediator is superior to theirs, superior because it has been enacted upon superior promises.

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you my servant and a witness to me of the things which you have seen and those which I shall yet enable you to see.

This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation.

Yes, I now am speaking to you who are a part of the heathen peoples. As I am an apostle to the heathen peoples, I am making the most of my ministry to them, to see

As all of you have received your spiritual talents, you must keep on using them in serving one another, as good trustees of God's many-sided favor.

"I know what you are doing, I know your love and faithfulness, your service and patient endurance, and I know that you are now working harder than you did at first.

while we will go on devoting ourselves to prayer and the word of God."

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

For I have an opportunity here that is great and calls for work, and it has many opponents.

If anyone is preaching, let him do it as one who utters the oracles of God; if anyone is rendering any service to others, let him do it with all the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

This is a saying to be trusted: "Whoever aspires to the office of pastor desires an excellent work."

And tell Archippus, "See to it that you continue until you fill full your ministry which you received in the Lord's work."

He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many other women, who continued to contribute to their needs out of their personal means.

So, as a Christian, I am proud of the things that I have done for God.

If anyone serves me, he must continue to follow me, and my servant also must go wherever I go. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Just so the Lord has issued orders that those who preach the good news shall get their living out of it.

At the same time keep on praying for me too, that God may open the door of opportunity for the message, so that I may tell the open secret about Christ, for the sake of which I am held a prisoner,

if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

So you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.