Serve

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.”

“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.

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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.”

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.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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.’”

“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.”

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.”

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

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

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

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 →

“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.’

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?

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 →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 →

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers, — 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 →

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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;

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

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

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 →

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another; — read the full passage →

Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. — read the full passage →

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

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

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.

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

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? — 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 →

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, — read the full passage →

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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

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 →

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 →

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? — 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. — read the full passage →

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

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

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — 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;

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant, — read the full passage →

A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

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.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; — read the full passage →

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.

For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;