Serving One Another

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

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,

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 →

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

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 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;

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

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

And I am persuaded, my brethren--I myself also--concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

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;

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

`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.'

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

if then I did wash your feet--the Lord and the Teacher--ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

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. — read the full passage →

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

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

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

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,

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in 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.

Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

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 →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

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

to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

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 →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love 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.'

for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; — read the full passage →

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 if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

but ye <FI>are<Fi> not so, but he who is greater among you--let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering; — read the full passage →

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand <FI>is<Fi> toward God to do <FI>it<Fi> .

if any one doth speak--`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister--`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power--to the ages of the ages. Amen.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

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

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

The good of eye--he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us; — read the full passage →

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

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

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

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

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.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail <FI>doth<Fi> her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;