Christian Service

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up. — read the full passage →

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday; — read the full passage →

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, — read the full passage →

For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am in your midst as one who serves.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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,

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, — read the full passage →

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing. — read the full passage →

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light. — read the full passage →

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. — read the full passage →

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— — read the full passage →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. — read the full passage →

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. — read the full passage →

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.