17 Bible Verses about People Sending People

For I am myself under the orders of others, and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

So after fasting and prayer, they laid their hands upon them and let them go.

The church saw them off upon their journey, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the heathen, and caused great rejoicing among all the brothers.

Then the apostles and elders with the whole church resolved to select representatives and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. They were Judas who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

we have unanimously resolved to select representatives and send them to you with our dear brothers Barnabas and Paul,

After they had stayed some time, the brothers let them go, with a greeting to those who had sent them.

But Paul selected Silas and set out, the brothers commending him to the Lord's favor.

He sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed on for a while in Asia.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine, in the service of the Lord, and one on whom you can depend, and he will help you to keep in mind my methods in the service of Christ Jesus, which I follow everywhere in every church.

and I will probably stay some time with you, or even pass the winter, so that you may start me off for wherever I may be going.

So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers.

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will;