Servers

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

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.”

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.

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.”

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?

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.”

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.”

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 →

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

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of 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. — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

“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.’

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 →

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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 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.

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.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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.

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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

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 →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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.

Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant 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.’

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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

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,

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

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;

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

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

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

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

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.

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

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 →

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.

For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

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 →

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

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

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; — read the full passage →

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

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

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.