Quotes About Service

For they refreshed my spirit and yours as well. Show your appreciation, therefore, to such men.

I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesusí sake.

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesusí sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

So we aspire to please Him, whether we are here in this body or away from it.

If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

As Godís fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive Godís grace in vain.

We put no obstacle in anyoneís way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

they earnestly pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.

For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.

More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering—the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.

We hope to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you. As for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, to the glory of Christ.