40 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching,

in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

For just as there are many parts united in our human bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.

And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches.

In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants.

If the foot says, "As I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

Each one is given his spiritual illumination for the common good.

for God is not a God of disorder but of peace. This is the rule in all Christian churches.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

Whatever the endowment God has given you, use it in service to one another, like good dispensers of God's varied mercy.

So the Twelve called in the whole body of disciples and said to them, "It is not desirable that we should give up preaching the word of God to keep accounts.

Those who are found guilty you must reprove publicly, as a warning to others.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially to those who belong to the family of the faith.

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

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.

Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.

I robbed other churches, letting them pay me so that I could work for you!

As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

Our altar is one at which those who serve the tent of worship have no right to eat.

It will all lead to your testifying.

There is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

and how I served the Lord most humbly and with tears, through all the trials that I encountered because of the plots of the Jews.

So the churches became stronger and stronger in the faith, and their numbers increased from day to day.

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

that you may praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ with one accord and one voice.

so, many as we are, we form one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

Only, everyone must continue in the station which the Lord has appointed for him, and in which he was when God's call came to him. This is the rule I make in all the churches.