Helping Members Of The Church

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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, — read the full passage →

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — 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 →

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

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.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

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

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved 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. — read the full passage →

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — read the full passage →

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’ — read the full passage →

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

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

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

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — 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 →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

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.

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 →

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.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. — read the full passage →

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — 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.’”

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

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. — read the full passage →

It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, — read the full passage →

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;