54 Bible Verses about Ministry

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

various forms of official service, and yet one and the same Lord;

I am thankful to Him who made me strong--even Christ Jesus our Lord--because He has judged me to be faithful and has put me into His service,

For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

For the service rendered in this sacred gift not only helps to relieve the wants of God's people, but it is also rich in its results and awakens a chorus of thanksgiving to God.

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

Are not all angels spirits that serve Him--whom He sends out to render service for the benefit of those who, before long, will inherit salvation?

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

if it is the gift of administration, let the administrator exercise a sound judgement in his duties.

to occupy the place in this ministry and Apostleship from which Judas through transgression fell, in order to go to his own place."

For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in this service, you cause God to be extolled for your fidelity to your professed adherence to the Good News of the Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all who are in need,

I have been appointed to serve the Church in the position of responsibility entrusted to me by God for your benefit, so that I may fully deliver God's Message--

For if the service which pronounces doom had glory, far more glorious still is the service which tells of righteousness.

But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

Luke is the only friend I now have with me. Call for Mark on your way and bring him with you, for he is a great help to me in my ministry.

Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar?

in which I have been appointed to serve, in virtue of the work which God, in the exercise of His power within me, has graciously entrusted to me.

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, doing priestly duties in connexion with God's Good News so that the sacrifice--namely the Gentiles--may be acceptable to Him, being (as it is)

No part or lot have you in this matter, for your heart is not right in God's sight.

If, however, the service that proclaims death--its code being engraved in writing upon stones--came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face--a vanishing brightness;

But, as a matter of fact, the ministry which Christ has obtained is all the nobler a ministry, in that He is at the same time the negotiator of a sublimer covenant, based upon sublimer promises.

But rise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for the very purpose of appointing you My servant and My witness both as to the things you have already seen and as to those in which I will appear to you.

And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and has appointed us to serve in the ministry of reconciliation.

But to you Gentiles I say that, since I am an Apostle specially sent to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry,

Whatever be the gifts which each has received, you must use them for one another's benefit, as good stewards of God's many-sided kindness.

I know your doings, your love, your faith, your service, and your patient endurance; and that of late you have toiled harder than you did at first.

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message."

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many."

And by God's appointment there are in the Church--first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

for a wide door stands open before me which demands great efforts, and we have many opponents.

If any one preaches, let it be as uttering God's truth; if any one renders a service to others, let it be in the strength which God supplies; so that in everything glory may be given to God in the name of Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the might to the Ages of the Ages. Amen.

for He who had been at work within Peter with a view to his Apostleship to the Jews had also been at work within me with a view to my Apostleship to the Gentiles--

Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."

And tell Archippus to discharge carefully the duties devolving upon him as a servant of the Lord.

He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, all of whom contributed to the support of Jesus and His Apostles.

I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.

If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there too shall my servant be. If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.

if, indeed, you are still firmly holding to faith as your foundation, without ever shifting from your hope that rests on the Good News that you have heard, which has been proclaimed in the whole creation under Heaven, and in which I Paul have been appointed to serve.

As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.