41 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

if it is the gift of administration, let the administrator exercise a sound judgement in his duties.

in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving--for the building up of Christ's body--

various forms of official service, and yet one and the same Lord;

For just as there are in the one human body many parts, and these parts have not all the same function;

For men of that stamp are not bondservants of Christ our Lord, but are slaves to their own appetites; and by their plausible words and their flattery they utterly deceive the minds of the simple.

As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with the Church of Christ.

And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.

I have been appointed to serve the Church in the position of responsibility entrusted to me by God for your benefit, so that I may fully deliver God's Message--

And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons.

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

Were the foot to say, "Because I am not a hand I am not a part of the body," that would not make it any the less a part of the body.

But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.

For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace, as He is in all the Churches of His people.

For the time has come for judgement to begin, and to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God's Good News?

Whatever be the gifts which each has received, you must use them for one another's benefit, as good stewards of God's many-sided kindness.

So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables.

Those who persist in sin reprove in the presence of all, so that it may also be a warning to the rest.

Do you not know that those who perform the sacred rites have their food from the sacred place, and that those who serve at the altar all alike share with the altar?

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

I call God to witness--to whom I render priestly and spiritual service by telling the Good News about His Son-- how unceasingly I make mention of you in His presence,

For this reason I have sent Timothy to you. Spiritually he is my dearly-loved and faithful child. He will remind you of my habits as a Christian teacher--the manner in which I teach everywhere in every Church.

With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.

For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.

Other Churches I robbed, receiving pay from them in order to do you service.

But, as a matter of fact, God has arranged the parts in the body--every one of them--as He has seen fit.

Martha meanwhile was busy and distracted in waiting at table, and she came and said, "Master, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do all the waiting? Tell her to assist me."

We Christians have an altar from which the ministers of the Jewish Tent have no right to eat.

In the end all this will be evidence of your fidelity.

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

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

And by God's appointment there are in the Church--first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

serving the Lord in all humility, and with tears, and amid trials which came upon me through the plotting of the Jews--

So the Churches went on gaining a stronger faith and growing in numbers from day to day.

and then being a widow of eighty-four years. She was never absent from the Temple, but worshipped, by day and by night, with fasting and prayer.

so that with oneness both of heart and voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.

For this reason they stand before the very throne of God, and render Him service, day after day and night after night, in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne will shelter them in His tent.

Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him--in that let him continue.