Bible verses about "mission" | Thomson

¹ Do not, my brethren, exercise this belief of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ in partial regards for persons. ² For if there should come into your assembly a man in splendid dress, having his fingers adorned with gold rings; and there should come in also a poor man in mean apparel; ³ and you should pay respect to the man in the splendid dress, and say to him, sit thou here in an honourable place; and say to the poor man, stand thou there; or, sit here below my footstool: ⁴ have you not actually made distinctions among yourselves, and become ill principled judges? ⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him? ⁶ But you have treated the poor with disdain. Do not the rich domineer over you? Do they not drag you to tribunals? ⁷ Do they not revile that honourable name by which you are called?

³ And I will gather the remains of my people in every land whither I have driven them and bring them back to their own pasture and they shall increase and multiply. ⁴ And I will raise up shepherds for them who will feed them. And they shall no more be terrified nor affrighted, saith the Lord.

⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth.

² complete my joy. In order that you may be like minded, exercising the same love, having your souls knit together, your minds bent on the one thing

¹⁹ Go therefore and make all the nations disciples, baptizing them to the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo! I am with you all the days to the conclusion of this age. Amen.