Serving The Lord

`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.

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.'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

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.

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

and to him who is working, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt; — read the full passage →

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.