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Missionary Work Mark 16:15
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Open passageMissionary Work Acts 6:4
and will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Open passageMissionary Work 1 Timothy 4:12
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
Open passageMissionary Work Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Open passageMissionary Work Psalm 96:3
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
Open passageMissionary Work Romans 10:14
How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?
Open passageMissionary Work 1 Peter 3:15
But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,
Open passageMissionary Work 1 Peter 4:10
As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
Open passageMissionary Work Philippians 4:6, 7
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. / And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Open passageMissionary Work Isaiah 6:8
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!”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers is According to the Purpose of God Luke 24:46, 47
And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, / and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers is According to the Purpose of God Galatians 1:15, 16
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased / to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers is According to the Purpose of God Colossians 1:25–27
I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God, / the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints. / To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Aid Those Engaged In Romans 16:1, 2
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. / Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Aid Those Engaged In 2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Aid Those Engaged In 3 John 1:5–8
Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you. / They have testified to the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. / For they went out on behalf of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Apostles Mark 6:12
So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Apostles Acts 13:2–5
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” / And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. / So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Be Ready to Engage In Isaiah 6:8
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!”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Engaged In Matthew 4:17, 23
From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” / Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Engaged In Matthew 11:1
After Jesus had finished instructing His twelve disciples, He went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Engaged In Mark 1:38, 39
But Jesus answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns so I can preach there as well, for that is why I have come.” / So He went throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Engaged In Luke 8:1
Soon afterward, Jesus traveled from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Sent his Disciples to Labour In Mark 3:14
He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Sent his Disciples to Labour In Mark 6:7
Then Jesus called the Twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Christ Sent his Disciples to Labour In Luke 10:1–11
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. / Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Commanded Matthew 28:19
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Commanded Mark 16:15
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Directed by the Holy Spirit Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Excellency of Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Excellency of Romans 10:15
And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: God Qualifies For Exodus 3:11, 18
But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” / The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: God Qualifies For Exodus 4:11, 12, 15
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD? / Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.” / You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: God Qualifies For Isaiah 6:5–9
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.” / Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. / And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: God Strengthens For Jeremiah 1:7–9
But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. / Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD. / Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Guilt and Danger of Shrinking From Jonah 1:3, 4
Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. / Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Harmony should Subsist Amongst Those Engaged In Galatians 2:9
And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Jonah Jonah 3:2
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Levites 2 Chronicles 17:8, 9
accompanied by certain Levites—Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah—along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram. / They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: No Limits to the Sphere of Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: No Limits to the Sphere of Mark 16:15
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: No Limits to the Sphere of Revelation 14:6
Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Noah 2 Peter 2:5
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Obligations to Engage In Acts 4:19, 20
But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God. / For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Obligations to Engage In Romans 1:13–15
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. / I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. / That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Obligations to Engage In 1 Corinthians 9:16
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Opportunities For, not to be Neglected 1 Corinthians 16:9
because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Paul Acts 13:2–4
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” / And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off. / So Barnabas and Saul, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Philip Acts 8:5
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Required Luke 10:2
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.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Required Romans 10:14, 15
How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? / And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Requires Wisdom and Meekness Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Silas Acts 15:40, 41
but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. / And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Success of a Cause of Joy Acts 15:3
Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Success of a Cause of Praise Acts 11:18
When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Success of a Cause of Praise Acts 21:19, 20
Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. / When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Success of To be Prayed For Ephesians 6:18, 19
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. / Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel,
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Success of To be Prayed For Colossians 4:3
as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: The Holy Spirit Calls To Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: The Seventy Luke 10:1, 17
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. / The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Timotheus Acts 16:3
Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Warranted by Predictions Concerning the Heathen Isaiah 42:10–12
Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise from the ends of the earth—you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them. / Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops. / Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Warranted by Predictions Concerning the Heathen Isaiah 66:19
I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.
Open passageMissionary Work by Ministers: Worldly Concerns should not Delay Luke 9:59–62
Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” / But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” / Still another said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first let me bid farewell to my family.”
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