Bible Verses about “ministry”
The Bible contains 42 verses about ministry across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
“Let 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.”
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”
“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;”
“For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:”
“Till 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:”
“And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.”
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
“But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.”
“¶ I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;”
“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.”
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
“Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation.”
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.”
“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;”
“¶ [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;”
“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”
“Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;”
“But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:”
“But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,”
“In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;”
“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.”
“By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,”
“¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
“We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;”
“For all things [are] for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.”
“By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,”
“By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;”
“¶ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;”
“Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.”
“Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:”
“As unknown, and [yet] well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;”
“As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.”
“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
“For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”
“So then death worketh in us, but life in you.”