20 Bible Verses about Serving People

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God.

Don’t neglect to do what is good and to share, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

Sitting down, He called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

May peoples serve you
and nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brothers;
may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Those who curse you will be cursed,
and those who bless you will be blessed.

You have freed me from the feuds among my people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

For the nation and the kingdom
that will not serve you will perish;
those nations will be annihilated.

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

And the Lord said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;
two people will come from you and be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other,
and the older will serve the younger.

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”

For who is greater, the one at the table or the one serving? Isn’t it the one at the table? But I am among you as the One who serves.

Those who have believing masters should not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but should serve them better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.

Teach and encourage these things.

So after sending two of those who assisted him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

If anyone speaks, it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

I know your works—your love, faithfulness, service, and endurance. Your last works are greater than the first.