Bible verses about "ministry" | MNT

¹⁸ And Jesus came forward to them and spoke to them, saying. "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; ²⁰ teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

¹ Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil. ² He ate nothing during these days, and at the close of them he was hungry. ³ The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God tell this stone to become bread." ⁴ And Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written that not by bread alone shall man live." ⁵ And the devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time, and the devil said to him. ⁶ "To you will I give all this authority and this glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. ⁷ "If then you will worship me, it shall all be yours." ⁸ "It is written," answered Jesus, "Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." ⁹ Then he brought him to Jerusalem, and caused him to stand upon the Temple roof, and said to him. "If you really are the Son of God throw yourself down here; ¹⁰ for it is written, "He shall give his angels charge of thee, to guard thee safely; ¹¹ "They will bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy food against a stone." ¹² "It has been said," replied Jesus, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God."

¹ Again he went into a synagogue where there was a man with his hand withered. ² And they kept watching Jesus to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath; so as to have some charge to bring against him. ³ "Stand up," Jesus said to the man with the withered hand, "and come forward." ⁴ Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?" ⁵ They were silent. Then looking around upon them with anger, and deeply grieved by the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand!" He stretched it out, and the hand was at once completely restored. ⁶ As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him. ⁷ Then Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples; and a great crowd of people from Galilee followed. ⁸ From Judea, too, and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the district of Tyre and Sidon, they came to him a vast multitude, because they heard what he was doing. ⁹ So he directed his disciples to keep a little boat in readiness for him, because of the crowd, to prevent their crushing him. ¹⁰ For he had healed so many that all the people who had ailments pressed upon him so as to touch him. ¹¹ And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they threw themselves down at his feet, screaming out, "You are the Son of God." ¹² But over and over, he strictly forbade them to make him known. ¹³ Then he went up the hillside and called to him those whom he chose, and they came to him. ¹⁴ Twelve of them whom he also called "Apostles," he appointed to be with him, and also that he might send them out to preach, ¹⁵ and to have authority to cast out demons. ¹⁶ There was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, ¹⁷ and James(them he surnamed Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder), ¹⁸ and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Zealot, ¹⁹ and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. ²⁰ Then he went into a house, but again such a multitude assembled that they could not get their food. ²¹ When his relatives heard of it, they came to take possession of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind." ²² The Scribes also who had come down from Jerusalem, said, "He is Beelzebub," and, "He casts out demons by the power of the Prince of the demons." ²³ So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴ If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; ²⁵ if a household be divided against itself, that household cannot stand; ²⁶ and if Satan has revolted against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand. Nay, he meets his end! ²⁷ "Indeed, no one can enter the strong man's house and carry off his property without first binding the strong man; then he can plunder his house. ²⁸ In solemn truth I tell you that the sons of men shall be forgiven all their sins and all the blasphemies they may utter, ²⁹ but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit is never forgiven. Nay, he is in the grasp of an eternal sin." ³⁰ Because they kept saying, "He has an unclean spirit." ³¹ Then his mother and his brothers came up, and standing outside, they sent a messenger to him to call him. ³² Now a crowd was sitting round him and they told him, "See! your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, wanting to see you." ³³ "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he replied. ³⁴ Then, with a glance at those who were in the circle sitting around him, he added. ³⁵ "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."

¹ I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship. ² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. ³ For, through the grace that was given to me, I tell every man among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think, as to think soberly, according to the measure of faith which God has given him. ⁴ For even as we have many members in one body, and not all members have the same function; ⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and we are severally members of one another. ⁶ But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith. ⁷ If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service. ⁸ Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

¹ As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ. ² I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it. ³ You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings? ⁴ When one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere worldlings? ⁵ What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him. ⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made the seed grow. ⁷ So neither is he who planted anything, nor he who watered, but God alone, who is making the seed grow. ⁸ Now, though he who plants and he who waters are one, each will receive his own reward, according to his own service. ⁹ For we are God's fellow workers; and you are God's field, you are God's building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ The foundation is already laid—Jesus Christ—and no man can lay another. ¹² On that foundation, if a man proceeds to build gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, each man's work will be made manifest. ¹³ The Day will disclose it, for it dawns in fire, and the fire will test each man's work, of what quality it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work—the building he has made—stands the test, he will be rewarded. ¹⁵ If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as it were through the flames. ¹⁶ Do you not know what you are God's sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God is dwelling within you? ¹⁷ If any one tear down God's sanctuary, God will tear him down; for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are. ¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness, ²⁰ and again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, how futile they are. ²¹ So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours; ²² Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, things present or things to come; all things are yours; ²³ and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

¹¹ So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience. ¹² I am not "commending myself to you again," but I am giving you an occasion of boasting on my behalf, so that you may have an answer ready for those who boast in externals, and not in the heart. ¹³ For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ overmasters me; because I thus judge that if One has died for all, then all have died; ¹⁵ and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them. ¹⁶ Therefore henceforth I know no one simply as a man—even if I have known Christ as a man, yet now I do so no longer. ¹⁷ So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come. ¹⁸ And all this is from God, who through Christ reconciled me to himself, and gave me the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ how that God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to men their trespasses; and that to me he has entrusted the message of that reconciliation. ²⁰ On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

¹ So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart. ² I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God. ³ But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled." ⁴ Among them the god of this age has blinded the understanding of the unbelieving so that the sunshine of the gospel of God, should not dawn upon them. ⁵ It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God who said, "Out of darkness light shall shine," is he who has shone in my heart, that the sunrise of the knowledge of God may shine forth in the face of Christ. ⁷ But I hold this treasure in an earthen vessel, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be from God, and not from myself. ⁸ On every side I am hard pressed, yet not hemmed in; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. ¹⁰ Wherever I go, I am always carrying about in my body the dying of Jesus, in order that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in this body of mine. ¹¹ For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh. ¹² So while death is working in me, life is working in you. ¹³ But having the same spirit of faith of which it is written, I believed, and therefore have spoken, I also believe and so I speak. ¹⁴ For I know that He who raised from the dead the Lord Jesus, will raise me also with Jesus, and set me at your side in his presence. ¹⁵ For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God. ¹⁶ For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day. ¹⁷ For my light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, ¹⁸ while I am gazing not at things seen, but at things unseen; for things seen are temporal, but things unseen are eternal.

⁶ It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

²⁴ But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

¹ I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead—by his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you— ² proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching. ³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies. ⁴ They will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to myths. ⁵ But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, And he will raise you up.

⁷ Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the message of God to you; consider the issue of their lives, and imitate their faith.

³ I am giving no one a cause of stumbling in order that my ministry may not be discredited; ⁴ but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses, ⁵ by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst; ⁶ with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere, ⁷ by a true teaching and an energy divine; by the weapons of righteousness, for attack or for defense, ⁸ amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true; ⁹ as unknown and yet well known; as at death's door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed; ¹⁰ as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

¹⁵ Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.

¹² Let no one despise you on account of your youth, but become an example for the faithful in word, in life, in love, in faith, in purity.

¹³ for Whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁴ How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? ¹⁵ And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring a glad gospel.

¹¹ It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ— ¹³ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.