Quotes About Service

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

You will have plenty of goatsí milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!”

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his fatherís house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ëYou are My servant.í I have chosen and not rejected you.

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Isnít it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.