Quotes About Ministry

He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.

Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—

I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach;

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there.

They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

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

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

Timothy, my fellow worker, sends you greetings, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my fellow countrymen.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Even if I am not an apostle to others, surely I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lordís brothers and Cephas?

Or are Barnabas and I the only apostles who must work for a living?

If others have this right to your support, shouldnít we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.

In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

For we are not like so many others, who peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as men sent from God.

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.