40 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

if it is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching,

for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,

varieties of service, but the same Lord;

In our one body we have a number of members, and the members have not all the same function;

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.

And then there is the pressing business of each day, the care of all the churches.

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

If the foot were to say, 'Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body,' that does not make it no part of the body.

Each receives his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

for God is a God not of disorder but of harmony. [Move 33b-36 to follow vs 40] As is the rule in all churches of the saints,

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?

You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace.

So the twelve summoned the main body of the disciples and said: "It is not desirable that we should drop preaching the word of God and attend to meals.

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,

for what you have contributed to the gospel from the very first day down to this moment;

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,

To ensure this, I am sending you Timotheus, my beloved and trustworthy son in the Lord; he will remind you of those methods in Christ Jesus which I teach everywhere in every church.

by rendering service with goodwill as to the Lord and Master, not to men.

'I am beside myself,' am I? Well, that is between myself and God. I am 'sane,' am I? Well, that is in your interests;

I made a levy on other churches, I took pay from them so as to minister to you;

As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

Our altar is one of which the worshippers have no right to eat.

That will turn out an opportunity for you to bear witness.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

how I served the Lord in all humility, with many a tear and many a trial which I encountered owing to the plots of the Jews,

and the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in numbers day by day.

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

that you may unite in a chorus of praise and glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.

For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them.

Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).