'Ministry' in the Bible
"They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.
The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures for ever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
For he was numbered with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don't faint.
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Tell Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it."
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.