23 Bible Verses about Missionaries

In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

A religion, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye looked after Me; I was in prison, and ye came to Me.'

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus;

and, being present with you, and being in want, I was a burden to no one; for the brethren, coming from Macedonia, supplied my lack; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will keep myself.

Notwithstanding, ye did well, in sharing with me in my tribulation. And know ye also, Philippians, that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving, but ye only; because even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my need.

Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

who testified to your love before the assembly; whom sending forward worthily of God, you will do well;

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for the supplying of the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts, to God.

not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

but exhort one another daily, so long as it is called "To-day," lest anyone of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin;

My brethren, if anyone among you be led astray from the truth, and one convert him; let him know that he who converted a sinner from the error of his way, will save a soul from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

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

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven.

so that ye became a model to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

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

So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification.

Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification;

So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven.

having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world, holding forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.

"Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?"

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip says to him, "Come and see."

And the high-priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things which He did, and the boys who were crying in the temple, and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" were much displeased, and said to Him, "Dost Thou hear what these are saying?" And Jesus saith to them, "Yes; did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou didst perfect praise!'"

And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be long-suffering toward all.

And regard him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Confess, therefore, your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. A righteous man's inwrought supplication avails much.

at the same time praying for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ (because of which I have also become bound),

Pray for us; for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to deport ourselves honestly in all things.

And, calling ten servants of his, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, 'Do business till I come.'

"For it is as when a man, going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods:

For, according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

"If any one comes to Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple.

for I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

And, answering, He said, "I tell you that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!"

Those, therefore, who were dispersed by reason of the tribulation that arose about Stephen, traveled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none but Jews only. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, indeed, having come to Antioch, were speaking to the Greeks also, publishing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.

Those, therefore, who were dispersed, went about, proclaiming the good tidings of the word.

And Jesus, hearing it said to him, "Yet one thing is lacking to you; sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven, and come, follow Me."

And whosoever does not bear his own cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple.

For the love of Christ is constraining us; having judged this, that One died for all; consequently, they all died: and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to Him Who died for them, and rose again.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that He might put to shame the wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong;

and they did this not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God;

according as each one received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; if anyone speaks, as uttering the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to Whom is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and, when he is made such, ye make him a son of Hell twofold more than yourselves.

for ye both sympathized with those in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions; knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.

"Every one, therefore, who shall confess Me before men, him will I also confess before My Father Who is in Heaven.

And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is interpreted, "Son of Consolation"), a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, owning a field, having sold it, brought the money, and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, "We have found the Messiah," (which, being translated, is Christ). He led him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said, "You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas," (which is translated Peter).

having your conduct seemly among the gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

and spared not the old world; but preserved Noah, an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing a flood upon a world of ungodly people;

The same had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and, being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the immersion of John.

The same also began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But Priscilla and Aquila, having heard him, took him to themselves, and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

And one of them, seeing that he was cleansed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice,

Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a learned man, came down to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost."

"If any one comes to Me, and hates not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and, further, his own soul also, he cannot be My disciple.

how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power; Who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the Devil; because God was with Him.

And he went away, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus did for him; and all were wondering.

"Come, see a Man Who told me all things that I ever did: can This be the Christ?"

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip says to him, "Come and see."

And, much discussion having arisen, Peter, standing up, said to them, "Brethren, ye well know that, from early days, God made choice among you, that through my mouth the gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe.

And, having brought their boats to the land, leaving all, they followed Him.

and Joanna wife of Chuzas Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who were ministering to them of their substance.

Those, therefore, who were dispersed, went about, proclaiming the good tidings of the word.