Bible Verses about โchristian serviceโ
The Bible contains 30 verses about christian service across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โdoing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;โ
โeach of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.โ
โIn 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.'"โ
โLet us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.โ
โHaving gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;โ
โAs each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.โ
โor service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;โ
โor he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.โ
โAnd if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,โ
โand one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?โ
โEven so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.โ
โHave this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,โ
โWhat good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?โ
โYou see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.โ
โYou believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.โ
โFor 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.โ
โYes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.โ
โAnd being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.โ
โbut emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.โ
โBut do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?โ
โwho, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,โ
โand the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.โ
โWasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?โ
โYou see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;โ
โmake my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;โ
โSo 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.โ
โNow we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.โ
โLet each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.โ
โand Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.โ
โand 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;โ
