25 Bible Verses about Missionaries

And when thy brother shall be poor, and his hand wavering with thee, hold fast to him; a stranger and sojourner to live with thee.

He scattered, he gave to the needy; his justice stands forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.

I shewed you all things, that so being wearied ye must support the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is happy to give rather than receive.

Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.

Embrace Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

But ye did well, participating together in my pressure. And ye also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news, when I went out from Macedonia, no church participated with me in the word of donation and accepting, except ye alone. For also in Thessalonica, and once, and twice, ye sent to my necessity.

Embrace Urban, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Who testified to thy love before the church: thou shalt do well, having sent them forward worthily of God.

Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.

Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.

The mouth of the just one shall germinate wisdom: and the tongue of perverseness shall be cut off.

The lips of the wise will disperse knowledge: and the heart of the foolish not so.

The mouth of the just one shall speak wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment

Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom to some; but beseeching: and by so much the more, inasmuch as ye see the day drawing near.

Come, ye sons, hear to me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

I will teach those transgressing, thy ways, and those sinning shall turn back to thee.

But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin.

Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back; Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

The soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full.

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

The fruit of the just a tree of life; and he taking souls is wise.

And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

The living; the living, he shall praise thee, as from me this day the father to the sons shall make known for thy truth.

For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save the husband or what knowest thou, O hushand, if thou shalt save the wife?

For he raised up a testimony in Jacob and set a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons: So that a later generation shall know; sons shall be born, they shall rise up and recount to their sons. And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands. read more.
And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

And I meditated in all thy work, and I will think upon all thy doings.

Also my tongue all the day shall celebrate thy justice; for they were confused, for they seeking my evil were ashamed.

Cause me to understand the way of thy charges, and I will meditate in thy wonders.

They shall tell the glory of thy kingdom, and they shall speak of thy strength; To make known to the sons of man his powers, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

And the people will rejoice for their showing themselves willing, for with the whole heart they showed themselves willing to Jehovah: and also David the king rejoiced with great gladness.

And because who am I? and who my people, that we shall retain power to show ourselves willing according to this? for from thee all things, and from thy hand they gave to thee.

Every man and woman whose heart impelled them to bring for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses, the sons of Israel brought a voluntary gift to Jehovah.

That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world;

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

So that ye were types to all believing in Macedonia and Achaia.

Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.

So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another.

For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building.

So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

That ye be complete and pure, children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world; Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.

And many people went and said, Come, and we will go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us from his ways, and we will go in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

Taste ye and see that Jehovah is good: happy the man who shall put his trust in him.

Come, see a man, who told me all which I ever did: is not this Christ?

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

Out of the mouth of children and sucklings thou hast founded strength on account of thine enemies, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

She opened her mouth in wisdom, and the law of mercy upon her tongue.

And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things which he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Osanna to the son of David; they felt pain. And they said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yes; have ye never read, That out of the mouths of young children and sucklings thou hast adjusted praise?

And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.

And deem not as an enemy, but remind as a brother.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.

And having called his ten servants, he gave them ten coins, and said to them, Attend to business, till I come.

For as a man going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered them his possessions:

And they will say to Moses, saying, The people are multiplying to bring more than enough to the service for the work which Jehovah commanded to do it And Moses will command, and they will make a voice pass through in the camp, saying, A man and woman shall do no more work for the offering of the holy place. And the people will withhold from bringing. And the work was enough for all the work to do it, and more than enough.

For according to power, I testify, and above power chosen voluntarily;

And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

For I judged not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Remember the days of eternity; Discern the years of generation and generation: Ask thy father, and he will announce to thee; Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

And also even to old age and grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake me; till I shall announce thine arm to the generation, thy strength to every one who shall come:

Come, hear, and I will recount, all ye fearing God, what he did for my soul

Now, O Jehovah, for I am thy servant; I thy servant, the son of thy maid-servant: thou didst loose to my bonds. To thee will I sacrifice a sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of Jehovah. My vows to Jehovah I will repay before now to all his people, read more.
In the enclosures to the house of Jehovah, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jah.

Young men and also virgins; old men with the youths: They shall praise the name of Jehovah: for his name alone is exalted; his majesty over the earth and the heavens.

O God, thou didst teach me from my youth: and even to this will I announce thy wonders.

I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.

And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel.

Curse ye Meroz, said the messenger of Jehovah: Cursing, curse ye her inhabitants; For they came not to the help of Jehovah To the help of Jehovah against the mighty ones.

And having answered, he said to them, I say to you that if these should be silent, the stones shall cry out.

Therefore truly those dispersed by the pressure having been on account of Stephen, passed through even to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except the Jews only. And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus.

Truly therefore the dispersed passed through announcing good news the word.

And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And whoever lifts not his cross, and comes after me, cannot be my disciple.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead: And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong;

And the runners will go with the letters from the hand of the king and his chiefs in all Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn back to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaak and Israel, and he will turn back to the escaping being left to you from the hand of the king of Assur.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

And Hannah will pray and say, My heart rejoiced in Jehovah, my horn was lifted up in Jehovah; my mouth was enlarged over mine enemies; for I was glad in thy salvation. None holy as Jehovah, for none beside thee: and no rock as our God. Ye shall not enlarge; will ye sproud, proud? shall the impatient thing come forth from your mouth for Jehovah a God of knowledge, and doings were not made equal. read more.
The bows of the mighty being broken, and the weak were girded with strength. And those filled with bread hired themselves out; and they hungering, ceased till the barren shall bring forth seven; and she multiplying sons languished. Jehovah killing and giving life; bringing down to hades and bringing up. Jehovah dispossessing, and enriching: making low, but lifting up. Raising up the weak from the dust, he will raise up the needy from the dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he will cause them to inherit a throne of glory, for to Jehovah the castings of the earth, and he will put the habitable globe upon them. He will watch the feet of the merciful and the unjust shall be silent in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail. Jehovah, they contending against him, shall be broken; in the heavens he will break them in pieces: Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth, and he will give strength to his king, and he will lift up the horn of his Messiah.

And it shall be when your sons shall say to you, What this service to you? And they said, This the sacrifice of the passing over to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyptians, and he delivered our houses. And the people will bow down and will worship.

As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego answered, and saying to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn back to thee upon this word. If it is, our God whom we served will be able to deliver us from the furnace of flaming fire, and from thy hand, O king, he will deliver us. And if not, it shall be made known to thee, O king, that to thy gods we serve not, and to the image of gold that thou didst set up we will not prostrate ourselves:

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! for ye go about sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he should become, ye make him the son of hell, twofold more than you.

The sons are gathering up woods, and the fathers kindling the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens, and to pour out libations to other gods, to irritate me.

For ye also suffered together with me in bonds, and received the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing to have in yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.

Every one therefore who shall agree with me before men, I also will agree with him before my Father, him in the heavens.

Strengthen the relaxed hands and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those hasty of heart, Be strong ye shall not fear; behold, your God will come with vengeance, the recompense of God; he will come and save you.

And Joses, surnamed Barnabas by the sent, (which is interpreted, Son of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, A field being to him having sold, he brought the money and laid at the feet of the sent.

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found Messias, which is, being interpreted, Christ. And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus having looked upon him, said, Thou art Simon son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, interpreted, Peter.

This people I formed for myself; they shall recount my praise.

And I will speak in thy testimonies before kings, and I shall not be ashamed.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

And she will say to her mistress, O that my lord was before the prophet that is in Shomeron! then he will gather him from his leprosy.

And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;

And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.

He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and boiling up in the spirit, he spake and taught attentively the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.

And he began to speak freely in the synagogue: and . Priscilla and Aquila having heard him, took him, and set forth to him the way of God more accurately.

And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, with a great voice honouring God.

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, being able in the writings.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power; who passed through doing good, and healing all oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

And he went away, and began to proclaim in Decapolis what Jesus did to him: and all were wondering.

Come, see a man, who told me all which I ever did: is not this Christ?

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.

And she having stood at that hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake concerning him to all awaiting redemption in Jerusalem.

And much discussion having been, Peter having risen up, said to them, Men, brethren, ye know that from ancient days God chose among us, through my month for the nations to hear the word of good news, and believe.

And having brought down the ship upon the land, having let go all things, they followed him.

And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them.

Truly therefore the dispersed passed through announcing good news the word.