'Service' in the Bible
And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home.
Blessed [are] those slaves whom the master will find on the alert [when he] returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by [and] serve them.
{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.
So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem [when they] had completed [their] service, having taken along with [them] John (who is also called Mark).
who are Israelites, [to] whom [belong] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the [temple] service, and the promises,
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
if [it is] service, by service; if [it is] one who teaches, by teaching;
Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction.
because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but also is overflowing through many [expressions of] thanksgiving to God.
Through the proven character of this service [they will] glorify God because of the submission of your confession to the gospel of Christ and the generosity of [your] participation toward them and toward everyone,
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you.
And those who have believing masters must not look down on [them] because they are brothers, but rather they must serve, because those who benefit by their service are believers and dearly loved.
Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?
Now these things having been prepared in this way, the priests enter into the first tent {continually} [as they] accomplish their service,
And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood.
'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.