Serve Others

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

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 he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

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.

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.”

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.’”

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

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

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 →

“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.”

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 →

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

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

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.

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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 →

“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.’

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

“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.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — 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.

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

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

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.

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 →

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.

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

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.

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

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

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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

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 →

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

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?

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

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

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

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

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

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

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — 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.

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

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 →

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.”

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?

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.

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;

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 know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?” — 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;

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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

We love him, because he first loved us. — 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 →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

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

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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 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 →

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 →

He said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power.” — 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.’

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

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.

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

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