Servants

for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me--honour him will the Father.

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them; — read the full passage →

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

`But, who is he of you--having a servant ploughing or feeding--who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat? — read the full passage →

A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you? — read the full passage →

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, — read the full passage →

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

`And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus--Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

for he who <FI>is<Fi> in the Lord--having been called a servant--is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you? — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them.

`Let your loins be girded, and the lamps burning, — read the full passage →

Thy servant <FI>am<Fi> I--cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater. — read the full passage →

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant, — read the full passage →

Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him, — read the full passage →

Whoso is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, <FI>At<Fi> his latter end also he is continuator.

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say--We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do--we have done.'

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

And the Aramaeans have gone out <FI>by<Fi> troops, and they take captive out of the land of Israel a little damsel, and she is before the wife of Naaman,

Only, be very watchful to do the command and the law which Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him, with all your heart, and with all your soul.'

and all the men of his house--born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger--have been circumcised with him.

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God; — read the full passage →

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another, — read the full passage →

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged, — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am; — read the full passage →

Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him--into <FI>his<Fi> hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth, — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them. — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them. — read the full passage →

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

`But, who is he of you--having a servant ploughing or feeding--who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat? — read the full passage →

And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?' — read the full passage →

lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you;

And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head; — read the full passage →

And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.