'Servants' in the Bible

The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'

"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'

and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him."

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.

Again he sent out other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the marriage feast!"'

and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.

Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

"Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'

"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'"

He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'

"It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it."

When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,

As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you in the garden with him?"

Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"

Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God's service, attending continually on this very thing.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire."

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.