'Serving' in the Bible
and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.
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 he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;
not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.
It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.