or of practical service, in the field of service; or of a teacher, in the field of teaching;

for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,

there are varieties of service, but the Lord to be served is the same;

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

So you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

Besides all other things, there is my concern for all the churches.

In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,

They, too, should first be tested till approved, and then, if they are found above reproach, they should serve as deacons.

(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).

If the foot says, "Since I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," that does not make it any less a part of the body.

To each of us is given a special spiritual illumination for the common good.

for God is not a God of disorder but of order, as it is in all the churches of God's people.

Because the time has come for judgment to begin at the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will the end be of those who are rejecting God's good news?

As all of you have received your spiritual talents, you must keep on using them in serving one another, as good trustees of God's many-sided favor.

So the Twelve called together the whole body of the disciples, and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave off preaching the word of God to wait on tables.

Those who are guilty reprove in public, so that others may be warned.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the temple get their living from the temple, and those who constantly attend on the altar share its offerings?

for your cooperation in spreading the good news, from the first day you heard it until now.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray,

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Heartily and cheerfully keep on working as slaves, as though it were for the Lord and not for men,

For if I did go crazy, it was for God's glory; and if I am keeping my head cool, it is for your good.

I sponged on other churches by taking pay from them to render service to you,

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

But Martha was getting worried about having to wait on them so much, so she came up suddenly and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the housework alone? Then tell her to take hold and help me."

We Christians have an altar at which the ministers of the Jewish tent of worship have no right to eat.

It will furnish you an opportunity to testify.

there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

to serve the Lord with all humility and in tears, through the trials that befell me because of the plots of the Jews.

So the churches through faith continued to grow in strength and to increase in numbers from day to day.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

that with united hearts and lips you may praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so we, though many, are united in one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

This is why they are before the throne of God, and day and night serve Him in His temple, and He who is seated on His throne will shelter them in His tent.

Only, everybody must continue to live in the station which the Lord assigned to him, in that in which God called him. These are my orders in all the churches.