Bible Verses about βministering to unsavedβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about ministering to unsaved across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.β
βLet no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.β
βAnd whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;β
βLet all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:β
βLet no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.β
βBe ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:β
β[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.β
βLet the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.β
βKnowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.β
βAnd whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.β
βHusbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.β
βFathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.β
βNeither give place to the devil.β
βBut God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.β
βThat they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,β
βForbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.β
βLet him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.β
βΒΆ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.β
βAnd he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;β
βFor bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.β
βSet your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.β
βChildren, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.β
βΒΆ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;β
βThe aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;β
βFor the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:β
βAnd be renewed in the spirit of your mind;β
βThat ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;β
βAnd that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.β
βEndeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.β
βΒΆ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,β
βTill we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:β
βBut speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:β
βΒΆ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:β
βΒΆ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;β
βThat we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;β
βFrom whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.β
βWherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.β
βΒΆ Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;β
βAnd above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.β
βAnd he said unto them, βΉGo ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.βΊβ
βOne Lord, one faith, one baptism,β
βHaving the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:β
β[There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;β
βAnd grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.β
βOne God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.β
βIn all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine [shewing] uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,β
βLie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;β
βWhere there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.β
βWho being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.β
βΒΆ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,β
