23 Bible Verses about Missionaries

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.

Salute Prisca [Priscilla] and Aquila my co-laborers in Christ Jesus,

and when I was with you and was in want, I was burdensome to no one; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied beforehand my need; and in every thing I kept myself without being burdensome to you, and will keep myself so.

But you did well to communicate with my affliction, And you know also, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only; for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need.

Salute Urbanus our co-laborer in Christ, and Stachus my beloved.

who testified of your love before the church, whom you will do well to send forward worthily of God.

Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God,

not forsaking our own congregation as some are in the habit of [doing], but exhorting [others], and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day, that no one of you may be hardened by the deception of sin;

Brothers, if any one among you errs from the truth, and one converts him, let him know that he who converts a sinner from an error of [his] way, shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife?

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

so that you became an example to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.

Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another.

Let us each please our neighbor in that which is good for edification;

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world, holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.

Come and see a man who has told me all things which I have done; is this the Christ?

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful works which he performed, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! they were displeased, and said to him, Do you hear what these say? And Jesus said to them, Yes. Have you never read, that out of the mouths of babes and nursing infants, you have perfected praise?

And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.

and account him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.

praying also at the same time for us, that God will open to us a door of utterance to declare the mystery of Christ, for which also I am bound,

Pray for us; for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to live well.

And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten minas [$163.30], and said to them, Use them in business till I come.

For, as a man going abroad called his servants, and delivered to them his estates;

For according to their ability, I testify, and beyond their ability, of their own accord,

and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

And he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent the stones would cry out.

And those scattered abroad by the affliction which commenced with Stephen, went even to Phenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but Jews only. But some of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who came to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks preaching the good news of the Lord Jesus.

Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere preaching the good news of the word;

And Jesus hearing it, said to him, One thing you yet want; sell all that you have, and distribute to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.

And whoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all then were all dead; and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty,

and not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God,

as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

Every one, therefore, who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father in heaven;

And Joseph, called Barnabas by the apostles, which is interpreted, A son of consolation, a Levite, a Cyprian by birth, having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

he first found his brother Simon, and said to him, We have found the Messiah; which is interpreted, Christ [Anointed]. He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, You are Simon, the son of Jonas; you shall be called Cephas; which is interpreted, Peter [Rock].

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noah a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly,

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit spoke and taught correctly the doctrines concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John;

and this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Priscilla and Aquila hearing him took him and taught him more accurately the way.

And one of them seeing that he was cured, returned, glorifying God with a loud voice,

AND a certain Jew by the name of Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being powerful in the Scriptures.

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

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Jesus from Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and curing all that were subjugated by the devil, for God was with him;

And he went away and proclaimed in the Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.

Come and see a man who has told me all things which I have done; is this the Christ?

And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said to him, Come and see.

And she coming by at that time, praised God, and spoke of him [the child] to all who expected a redemption in Jerusalem.

And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe.

And bringing the ships to the land they left all and followed him.

and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susannah, and many others, who served them with their property.

Being scattered abroad, therefore, they went everywhere preaching the good news of the word;