Volunteering

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye 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.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth. — read the full passage →

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; — read the full passage →

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

There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.

whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →

for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me.

Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. — read the full passage →

And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.

See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me. — read the full passage →

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt understand hereafter. — 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 compassions, — read the full passage →

and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday; — read the full passage →

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: — read the full passage →

Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, 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 →

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power;

And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

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

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. — read the full passage →

Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; — read the full passage →

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? — read the full passage →

Let love of the brethren continue. — read the full passage →

For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything. — read the full passage →

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it. — read the full passage →

as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against Jehovah’s anointed.

Jehovah recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.

And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words which Jehovah hath commanded, that ye should do them.

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for me an offering: of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take my offering.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money. — read the full passage →

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass on a sabbath, that he was going through the grainfields; and his disciples plucked the ears, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel’s sake, — read the full passage →

And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? — read the full passage →

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force. — read the full passage →

And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness. — read the full passage →

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts. — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days. — read the full passage →

Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things. — read the full passage →

The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, Howthe wicked are overthrown to their ruin. — read the full passage →

He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death. — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, andpraise is comely. — read the full passage →

I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication. — read the full passage →

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. — read the full passage →

At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. — read the full passage →

unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

for all these did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts; but she of her want did cast in all the living that she had. — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. — read the full passage →

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble. — read the full passage →

For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight. — read the full passage →

I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. — read the full passage →

Ye are the children of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — 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 unspotted from the world. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. — read the full passage →

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, — read the full passage →

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. — read the full passage →

Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. — read the full passage →

But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said unto them, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. — read the full passage →

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; — read the full passage →

Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. [Selah — read the full passage →

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →