59 Bible Verses about evangelism, motivation for

To which I was set a herald, and sent, teacher of the nations.

And I shall hear the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us? and behold me saying, Send me. And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know.

And the word of Jehovah shall be to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.

And he said, The God of our fathers took thee in hand, to know his will, and to see the Just, and hear the voice from his mouth. For thou shalt be a witness for him to all men of what thou hast seen and hast heard.

For this, having this service, as we were compassionated, we lose not courage;

For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth.

For if I announce the good news, there is no boasting to me: for necessity is laid upon me; and woe is to me, if I announce not the good news! For if of free will I do this, I have reward: and if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

And I said, I will not bring him to remembrance, and I will no more speak in his name. And it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied to endure, and I shall not be able.

The lion roared, who shall not be afraid? the Lord Jehovah spake, who shall not prophesy?

For we cannot, the things we have seen and heard, not speak.

Son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and hear thou the word from my mouth, and admonish them from me. In my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and thou admonished him not, and thou spakest not to admonish the unjust from his way of injustice to preserve him alive; this unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from thy hand. And if thou hast admonished the unjust one, and he turned not back from his evil and from his way of injustice; he shall die in his iniquity and thou deliveredst thy soul.read more.
And in the just turning back from his justice and doing evil, and I gave a stumbling-block before his face, he shall die: for thou didst not admonish him, in his sins he shall die, and his justice shall not be remembered which he did; and his blood will I seek from thy hand.

And thou son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou heardest the word from my mouth, and thou didst warn them from me. In my saying to the, unjust, O unjust one, dying, thou shalt die; and thou spakest not to warn the unjust from his way, that unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and I will seek his blood from thine hand. And thou, if thou warnedst the unjust from his way to turn back from it, and be turned not back from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; and thou didst deliver thy soul.

According to the grace of God given to me, as a wise chief-architect, I have laid the foundation, and another builds upon. And let each see how he builds upon. For none is able to lay another foundation above that laid, which is Jesus the Christ. And if any one build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stalks;read more.
The work of each shall be manifested: for the day shall manifest, for in fire it is revealed; and the work of each, what sort it is, the fire shall prove. If the work of any shall remain which he built upon, he shall receive a reward. If the work of any one shall be burned, he shall be caused damage: and he shall be saved; and so as by fire.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; and we are made manifest to God; and I hope also to have been made manifest to your consciences.

Brethren, truly my heart's delight and prayer to God for Israel is for salvation.

For being free from all, I have subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more. And I was to the Jews as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: to them under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them under the law; To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,read more.
I became to the weak as weak, that I might gain the weak: I have been all things to all, that altogether I might save some. And this. I do on account of the good news, that I might become a partaker of it.

Serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, having happened to me by the insidious plots of the Jews: how I concealed nothing of things profitable, not to announce to you, and teach you publicly, and in the houses,

Both to Greeks, and foreigners; both to wise and unwise, I am debtor. So that for my part being zealous, also to you that in Rome, to announce the good news.

I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit, That there is great grief to me and continued pain in my heart. For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

If in some way I might make jealous my flesh, and I might save some of them.)

I have therefore boasting in Christ Jesus the things toward God. For I shall dare to speak nothing that Christ has not brought about by me, for the obedience of the nations, by word and by work, By power of signs and wonders, by power of the Spirit of God, so that I from Jerusalem, and round about even to Illyricum, have completed the good news of Christ.read more.
And so seeking the honour to announce the good news, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon a strange foundation:

For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

Let him know, that he having turned the sinful from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

The Lord puts not off the solemn promise, as some deem slowness; but is lonsuffering to us, not willing any to perish, but all should have room for repentance.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead: And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation; For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.

Of which I Became a servant, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me according to the energy of his power

And I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, having strengthened me, for he deemed me faithful, having set me in the service; Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love in Christ Jesus.read more.
Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first. But for this was I commiserated, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a model to them about to believe on him to eternal life.

For I am not ashamed of the good news of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to all believing; both to the Jew first, and the Greek. For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.

For as the rain coming down and the snow from the heavens, and shall not turn back there, but watering the earth and causing it to bring forth and sprout, and giving seed to be sown, and bread to be eaten; So shall be my word which went forth out of my mouth: it shall not turn back to me empty, but doing what I delighted in, and it shall prosper for what I send it

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void. For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.

(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;) Taking down reckonings, and every elevation lifted up against the knowledge of God, and taking captive every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Therefore shouldest thou not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his imprisoned: but partake of afflictions with the good news according to the power of God; Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

And a messenger of the Lord spake to Philip, saying, Arise, and go at noon in the way going down from Jerusalem to Gaza, (this is desert.) And having risen, he went: and, behold, an Ethiopian man, an eunuch of great power of Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come going to worship in Jerusalem, And he was returning, and sitting in his chariot he read the prophet Esaias.read more.
And the Spirit said to Philip, Come near, and be joined to this chariot.

And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, hindered by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia, Having come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia: and the Spirit suffered them not. And having passed by Mysia they came down to Troas.read more.
And a vision was seen to Paul by night; A certain man, a Macedonian, was standing, beseeching him, and saying, Having passed to Macedonia, help us. And when he saw the vision, we quickly sought to come out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to announce good news to them.

And a messenger of the Lord by night opened the doors of the prison, and having brought them forth, said, Go ye, and having stood, speak in the temple all the words of this life.

And a certain disciple was in Damascus, Ananias by name; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I, Lord. And the Lord to him, Having risen, go thou to the street called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, behold, he prays,

And Peter reflecting concerning the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee. But thou having risen, come down, and go with them, discussing nothing; for I have sent them.

And the spirit said to me to come with them, discussing nothing. And these six brethren came also with me, and we came to the man's house:

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

And the Lord said through a vision by night to Paul, Fear not, but speak, and thou shouldest not be silent: For I am with thee, and none shall attack thee to injure thee: for much people are to me in this city. And he sat a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

And coming to Troas for the good news of Christ, and a door having been opened to me in the Lord,

And having arrived, and gathered the church together, they announced what God did with them, and that he opened the door of faith to the nations.

For a door has stood open to me, great and effective, and many opposed.

Praying together also for us, that God would open to us a door of the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, by which also I was bound;

I know thy works: behold, I have given before thee an open door, and none can shut it, for thou hast a little power, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

But on the contrary, having seen that I have been entrusted with the good news of uncircumcision, as Peter of circumcision; (For be having been energetic in Peter for the mission of circumcision, was energetic also in me for the nations:) And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.

And the Lord said to him, Go: for he is a vessel of choice to me, to lift up my name before nations, and kings, and the sons of Israel:

But ye shall receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses to me also in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the last of the earth.

And when they deliver you up, have no care how or what ye should speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For ye yourselves are not speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking in you.

And when delivering up, they bring you, take no care beforehand what ye speak, neither bestow attention: but whatever should be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for not ye are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

And when they bring you to assemblies, and beginnings, and powers, have no anxiety how or what ye allege for justification, or what ye say: For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that hour what ye must say.

And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also testify, for ye are with me from the beginning.

For our good news was not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much complete certainty; as we know what we were among you for your sake.

Truly therefore the dispersed passed through announcing good news the word. And Philip having come down to the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ to them.

Therefore truly those dispersed by the pressure having been on account of Stephen, passed through even to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except the Jews only. And certain of them were Cyprian and Cyrenian men, who having come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks announcing good news, the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them; and a great number having believed, turned to the Lord.

And the Jews urged on the worshipping and distinguished women, and the first men of the city, and they raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they cast them out of their bounds, And they, having shaken off the cloud of the dust of their feet against them, came into Iconium.

Being conscious, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the country round about: And there they were announcing the good news.

And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; (for Claudius had ordered all Jews to be separated from Rome:) came to them.