Serving One Another

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

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.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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 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.

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

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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

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

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

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

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

“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.”

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.

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

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 →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

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

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 →

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.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

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.’”

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

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,

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?

“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.

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

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

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 →

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

“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.’

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.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

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

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 →

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

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.

But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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?

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

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

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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.

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.

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

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

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

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

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

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.

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

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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 →

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 →

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.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

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.

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.