Quotes About Service

And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with perfume.

Joanna the wife of Herodís household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women were ministering to them out of their own means.

And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that area.

So they set out and went from village to village, preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere.

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus spoke a blessing and broke them. Then He gave them to the disciples to set before the people.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

And He said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes the One who sent Me. For whoever is the least among all of you, he is the greatest.”

“Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

He sent messengers on ahead, who went into a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him.

Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.

And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

If you enter a town and they welcome you, eat whatever is set before you.

Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ëThe kingdom of God is near you.í

So too, when a Levite came to that spot and saw him, he passed by on the other side.

He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ëTake care of him,í he said, ëand on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.í

Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”