Bible Verses About All Christians Should Be As Missionaries

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”

“Do You hear what these children are saying?” they asked. “Yes,” Jesus answered. “Have you never read: ‘From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise’?”

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

So the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

After they had seen the Child, they spread the message they had received about Him.

Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.

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

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

“Look,” said Peter, “we have left all we had to follow You.”

Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.

And as He approached the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of disciples began to praise God joyfully in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:

“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

When the centurion saw what had happened, he gave glory to God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”