Bible Verses About Missions

Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”

Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.

Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.

Sing to the LORD, bless His name; proclaim His salvation day after day.

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and enter His courts.

Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.

Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

Let the fields exult, and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

before the LORD, for He is coming— He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.