32 Bible Verses about Serving

or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching,

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

Do you not know that those who do the work about the Temple get their living from the Temple, and those who attend to the altar divide the sacrifices with the altar?

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' "

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

So the Twelve called in the whole body of disciples and said to them, "It is not desirable that we should give up preaching the word of God to keep accounts.

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

she was told, "The elder will be the younger's slave."

For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.

Now I want to assure you, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in furthering the preaching of the good news.

Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

Whoever serves Christ in that way pleases God and gains the approval of men.

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.