14 Bible Verses about Serving People
Most Relevant Verses
as good economists of the different dispensations of God, communicate to one another the gifts you have receiv'd.
but don't forget to be beneficent to the community; for such sacrifice is acceptable to God.
for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another. for all the law is comprehended in this one precept, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
as the son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for all.
then sitting down, he address'd himself to the twelve, saying, he that would be the first, must be the last of all, and the servant of all.
no man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will be attach'd to the one, and neglectful of the other. ye cannot serve God and Mamon.
a servant cannot serve two masters: for either he will neglect the one, and attend the other; or he will be attached to the first, and misbehave to the last. you cannot serve God and mammon.
for who is greatest, he that sits at table, or he that waits? is it not the person at table? yet I am among you as one that serves.
let them not treat their christian masters, on pretence of being their brethren, with less respect: but be the more obsequious, because they are believers, and deserve to be belov'd, for the kind provision they make for them. let this be the subject of your instructions, and exhortation.
he sent therefore Timothy and Erastus, two of his assistants in the ministry, before to Macedonia; but stay'd himself in Asia for some time.
let a speaker deliver nothing but what is agreeable to the divine oracles: and let him that attends the poor, be active in proportion to the strength God has given him. amen.
for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.
your charitable offices, your faith, and your patience, and that your last works exceed the first.
