service
What does the Bible say about service? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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10Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
9Show hospitality to one another without complaining. 10Just as each of you has received grace, minister in the same way to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11When anyone speaks, it should be like words of God. When anyone ministers, it should be from the virtue that God provides, so that in all things God may be honored through Jesus Christ. To him is glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
45So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many.”
23Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as for the Lord, and not for men. 24For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.
35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in; 36naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.’ 37Then the just will answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when have we seen you hungry, and fed you; thirsty, and given you drink? 38And when have we seen you a stranger, and taken you in? Or naked, and covered you? 39Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit to you?’ 40And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’
10When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday.
35And taking a child, he set him in their midst. And when he had embraced him, he said to them:
26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there too my minister shall be. If anyone has served me, my Father will honor him.
11in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;