Service

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.