Quotes About Service

So we all agreed to choose men to send to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, along with many others, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord.

At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

and he stayed and worked with them because they were tentmakers by trade, just as he was.

When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.

When Apollos resolved to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.

When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of Godís grace.

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ëIt is more blessed to give than to receive.í”

Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.

the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to realize as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

ëBut get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

Nearby stood an estate belonging to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

After this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured as well.

The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.

Paul stayed there two full years in his own rented house, welcoming all who came to visit him.