43 Bible Verses about Serving The Church

Worship the Lord with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.

Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.

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

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

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

(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.

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

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.

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

But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,

So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.

Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

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

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body.

These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.

Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,

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

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;