39 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

or ministry, let us labor in the ministry; or he that teaches, in teaching;

with a view to the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;

And there are diversities of ministries, and the same Lord.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office;

For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

Now ye are Christ's body, and severally members thereof.

For, as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ;

Apart from those things without, that which is a pressure upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

of which I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God, which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

But let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, being without reproach.

(but, if one knows not how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of an assembly of God?);

If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body"; it is not, therefore, not of the body.

And to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profiting.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Because it is the time for judgment to begin at the house of God; and, if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the Gospel of God?

according as each one received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

And the twelve, having called the multitude of the disciples to them, said, "It is not proper that we, leaving the word of God, should serve tables;

Those who sin reprove before all, that the rest also may have fear.

Know ye not that those who are occupied upon sacred things eat of the things of the temple? and that those who wait at the altar partake with the altar?

So, then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, but especially to those of the household of the faith.

For God is my witness, Whom I serve in my spirit in the Gospel of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

with good-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

For whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is for you.

I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them, that I might minister to you;

But, as it is, God did set the members, each one of them in the body, even as He willed.

But Martha was being distracted about much serving; and, coming up suddenly, she said, "Lord, carest Thou not that my sister left me to serve alone? Speak to her, therefore, that she assist me!"

We have an altar, from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

It shall result to you for a testimony.

one Lord, one faith, one immersion,

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues.

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.

serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and with trials which befell me in the plottings of the Jews;

So the assemblies were being strengthened in the faith, and were increasing in number daily.

that with one accord ye may, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

For this reason are they before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His Temple; and He Who sitteth on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each one, as God hath called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the assemblies.