Bible Verses About All Christians Should Be As Missionaries

"Do not store up for yourselves wealth here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and burglars break in and steal.

Instead, store up for yourselves wealth in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and burglars do not break in or steal.

"Whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others I will also acknowledge in the presence of my Father in heaven.

But when the head cohanim and Torah-teachers saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the Temple, "Please deliver us!" to the Son of David, they were furious.

They said to him, "Do you hear what they're saying?" Yeshua replied, "Of course! Haven't you ever read, `From the mouth of children and infants you have prepared praise for yourself'?"

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You go about over land and sea to make one proselyte; and when you succeed, you make him twice as fit for Gei-Hinnom as you are!

"For it will be like a man about to leave home for awhile, who entrusted his possessions to his servants.

I needed clothes and you provided them, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

He went off and began proclaiming in the Ten Towns how much Yeshua had done for him, and everyone was amazed.

For all of them, out of their wealth, have contributed money they can easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given everything she had to live on."

Upon seeing this, they made known what they had been told about this child;

She came by at that moment and began thanking God and speaking about the child to everyone who was waiting for Yerushalayim to be liberated.

And as soon as they had beached their boats, they left everything behind and followed him.

Yochanah the wife of Herod's finance minister Kuza; Shoshanah; and many other women who drew on their own wealth to help him.

Sell what you own and do tzedakah — make for yourselves purses that don’t wear out, riches in heaven that never fail, where no burglar comes near, where no moth destroys.

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.

Whoever does not carry his own execution-stake and come after me cannot be my talmid.

One of them, as soon as he noticed that he had been healed, returned shouting praises to God,

On hearing this Yeshua said to him, “There is one thing you still lack. Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”

Kefa said, “Look, we have left our homes and followed you.”

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten manim [a maneh is about three months’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business with this while I’m away.’

and as he came near Yerushalayim, where the road descends from the Mount of Olives, the entire band of talmidim began to sing and praise God at the top of their voices for all the powerful works they had seen:

“Blessed is the King who is coming in the name of Adonai!” “Shalom in heaven!” and “Glory in the highest places!”

But he answered them, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones will shout!”

When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he began to praise God and said, “Surely this man was innocent!”