Bible Verses about “christian service”

“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”

“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”

“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›”

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

“Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;”

“As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”

“Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;”

“Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.”

“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,”

“And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?”

“Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”

“¶ What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”

“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”

“¶ For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

“Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”

“But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:”

“And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”

“Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?”

“Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?”

“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.”

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

“¶ We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

“Let every one of us please [his] neighbour for [his] good to edification.”

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”

“And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:”