43 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

If your gift is serving, devote yourself to serving others. If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching others.

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

and there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord.

For we have many parts in one body, but these parts do not all have the same function.

because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Now you are the Messiah's body and individual parts of it.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

Besides everything else, I have a daily burden because of my anxiety about all the churches.

I became its servant as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of the word of God.

But they must first be tested. Then, if they prove to be blameless, they may become ministers.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?

If the foot says, "Since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body, does it?

To each person has been given the ability to manifest the Spirit for the common good.

for God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God?

As good servant managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.

So the Twelve called the whole group of disciples together and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect messages from God in order to wait on tables.

As for those who keep on sinning, rebuke them in front of everyone so that the rest will also be afraid.

You know that those who work in the Temple get their food from the Temple and that those who serve at the altar get their share of its offerings, don't you?

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let's practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel about his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you

That's why I sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and dependable son in the Lord and will help you remember how I live for the Messiah Jesus as I teach everywhere in every church.

Serve willingly, as if you were serving the Lord and not merely people,

So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.

I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.

But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.

But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me."

We have an altar, and those who serve in the tent have no right to eat at it.

When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not."

It will give you an opportunity to testify.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of languages.

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

So the churches continued to be strengthened in the faith and to increase in numbers every day.

and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

so that with one mind and one voice you might glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

In the same way, even though we are many people, we are one body in the Messiah and individual parts connected to each other.

Then he told me, "These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. That is why: "They are in front of the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

Nevertheless, everyone should live the life that the Lord gave him and to which God called him. This is my rule in all the churches.