Bible Verses About All Christians Should Be As Missionaries

How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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.

For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,

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.

As it is written: “He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”

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.

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.

And as you Philippians know, in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church but you partnered with me in the matter of giving and receiving.

For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

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.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.