23 Bible Verses about Missionaries

In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'"

A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.

when I needed clothes you put them on me, when I was sick you looked after me, when I was in prison you came to see me.'

Remember me to Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in the work of Christ Jesus,

and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way.

But you did me a kindness to share my sorrow with me. And you Philippians yourselves know that immediately after the good news was first preached to you, when I left Macedonia, no church but yours went into partnership with me to open an account of credits and debits. Even while I was at Thessalonica you sent money more than once for my needs.

Remember me to Urbanus, my fellow-worker in the work of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys.

They have testified before the church to your love. You will please send them off on their journey in a way befitting the service of God.

Always let your conversation be seasoned with salt, that is, with winsomeness, so that you may know how to make a fitting answer to everyone.

You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.

Let the message of Christ continue to live in you in all its wealth of wisdom; keep on teaching it to one another and training one another in it with thankfulness, in your hearts singing praise to God with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.

Let us stop neglecting our meeting together, as some do, but let us continue to encourage one another, and all the more because you see that the great day is drawing near.

but day by day, as long as "Today" shall last, continue to encourage one another, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceiving ways,

My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back, you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a multitude of sins.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

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

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue

Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece.

So continue encouraging one another and helping one another in character building.

So let us keep on pursuing the things that make for peace and our mutual upbuilding.

Each one of us must practice pleasing his neighbor, to help in his immediate upbuilding for his eternal good.

Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

so that you may prove to be blameless and spotless, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverted age, in which you shine as light-bearers in the world as you continue to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

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

But because the high priests and scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple, "Welcome the Son of David," they were indignant and asked Him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus answered them, "Yes. Did you never read this, 'Out of the mouths of little children, yea, of infants, you have perfect praise'?"

We beg you, brothers, continue to warn the shirkers, to cheer the faint-hearted, to hold up the weak, and to be patient with everybody.

You must not regard him as an enemy but warn him as a brother.

So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.

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,

Pray for me, for I am sure that I have a clear conscience, and in everything I want to live a noble life.

He called in ten of his slaves and gave them twenty dollars apiece and told them to do business with his money while he was gone.

"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.

For they have given, I can testify, to the utmost of their ability, and even beyond their ability. Of their own accord,

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

for I determined, while among you, to be unconscious of everything but Jesus Christ and Him as crucified.

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

But He answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!"

Now the fugitives from the persecution that started over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message to none but Jews. But there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who on reaching Antioch began to speak to the Greeks too, and proceeded to tell them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell everything you have, and distribute the money among the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back and follow me."

Whoever does not persevere in carrying his own cross and thus following after me, cannot be a disciple of mine.

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died, and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

They did not do as I expected but even more; they first by God's will gave themselves to the Lord, and then to me;

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. 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.

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you scour land and sea to win a single convert, and when he is won you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, for you knew that you had in yourselves and in heaven one that was lasting.

Therefore, everyone who will own me before men I will own before my Father in heaven,

Now Joseph, a Levite, a native of Cyprus, who by the apostles was named Barnabas, which means Son of Encouragement, sold the farm he had and brought the money and put it at the disposal of the apostles.

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ). Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

Keep on living upright lives among the heathen, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, by what they see of your good deeds they may come to praise God on the judgment day.

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others when He brought the flood upon the world of godless people;

He had been instructed about the way of the Lord, and with spiritual fervor he was speaking and was accurately teaching some details about Jesus, although he knew of no baptism but John's.

He started speaking courageously in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home with them and more accurately explained the way of God to him.

But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice,

Meanwhile, a Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was a native of Alexandria, a learned man, and skillful in the use of the Scriptures.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

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

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.

So after they had brought the boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.

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.

Now those who were scattered went from place to place preaching the good news of the message.