23 Bible Verses about Missionaries

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

Salute Prisca and Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus,

even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.

But you were kind enough to take your share in my trouble. You Philippians are well aware that in the early days of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had any financial dealings with me; even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs.

Salute Urbanus, our fellow-worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.

they have testified to your love before the church. Pray speed them on their journey worthily of God;

let your talk always have a saving salt of grace about it, and learn how to answer any question put to you.

Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

Let the inspiration of Christ dwell in your midst with all its wealth of wisdom; teach and train one another with the music of psalms, with hymns, and songs of the spiritual life; praise God with thankful hearts.

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back, understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

O wife, how do you know you may not save your husband? O husband, how do you know you may not save your wife?

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia;

Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other ??as indeed you are doing.

Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world; hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

"Nazaret!" said Nathanael, "can anything good come out of Nazaret?" "Come and see," said Philip.

But when the high priests and scribes saw his wonderful deeds and saw the children who shouted in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant; they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

You are not to treat him as an enemy, but to put him under discipline, as a brother.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

and pray for me as well, that God may give me an opening for the word, to speak of the open secret of Christ for which I am in custody.

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life.

He first called his ten servants, giving them each a five-pound note, and telling them, 'Trade with this till I come back.'

For the case is that of a man going abroad, who summoned his servants and handed over his property to them;

I can testify that up to their means, aye and beyond their means, they have given ??4 begging me of their own accord, most urgently, for the favour of contributing to the support of the saints.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

I determined among you to be ignorant of everything except Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ the crucified.

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

But he replied, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, the very stones would shout."

Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews. Some of them, however, were Cypriotes and Cyrenians, who on reaching Antioch told the Greeks also the gospel of the Lord Jesus;

Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel.

When Jesus heard this he said to him, "You lack one thing more; sell all you have, distribute the money among the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died, and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

You must serve one another, each with the talent he has received, as efficient stewards of God's varied grace. If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

Everyone who will acknowledge me before men, I will acknowledge him before my Father in heaven;

Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth, sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.

In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ'). He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men:

He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and he preached and taught about Jesus with ardour and accuracy, though all the baptism he knew was that of John.

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice;

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

"Come here, look at a man who has told me everything I ever did! Can he be the Christ?"

"Nazaret!" said Nathanael, "can anything good come out of Nazaret?" "Come and see," said Philip.

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

Then they brought the boats to land, and leaving all they followed him.

Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.

Now those who were scattered went through the land preaching the gospel.