Volunteering

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

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.

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.’”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys. — read the full passage →

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

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

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

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.

“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.’

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

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

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. — read the full passage →

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 →

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me. — read the full passage →

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.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.” — 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 compassion, — read the full passage →

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

He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart.

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

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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

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 →

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

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

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

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.”

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

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 near to the sanctuary.”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood. — read the full passage →

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →

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 →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

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

as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to 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 presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed.

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. — read the full passage →

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

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, — read the full passage →

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! — read the full passage →

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. — 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 Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” — read the full passage →

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. — read the full passage →

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth. — read the full passage →

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. — read the full passage →

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully. — read the full passage →

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin. — read the full passage →

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death. — read the full passage →

Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him. — read the full passage →

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy. — read the full passage →

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!” — read the full passage →

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

At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” — read the full passage →

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, — read the full passage →

If then you 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 →

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

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. — read the full passage →

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. — read the full passage →

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You 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 unstained by the world. — 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. — read the full passage →

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

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. — read the full passage →

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing, — read the full passage →

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

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime; — read the full passage →

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh. — read the full passage →

God of my praise, don’t remain silent, — read the full passage →

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

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →