Bible Verses About Preaching

For undoubtedly you are giving thanks very nicely, but the other person is not being edified.

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,

but in a congregation meeting I would rather say five words with my mind in order to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue!

Brothers, don’t be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.

But if you all prophesy, and some unbeliever or uninstructed person enters, he is convicted of sin by all, he is brought under judgment by all,

and the secrets of his heart are laid bare; so he falls on his face and worships God, saying, “God is really here among you!”

But thanks be to God, who in the Messiah constantly leads us in a triumphal procession and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of what it means to know him!

For to God we are the aroma of the Messiah, both among those being saved and among those being lost;

to the latter, we are the smell of death leading only to more death; but to the former, we are the sweet smell of life leading to more life. Who is equal to such a task?

Therefore, with a hope like this, we are very open —

provided, of course, that you continue in your trusting, grounded and steady, and don’t let yourselves be moved away from the hope offered in the Good News you heard. This is the Good News that has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven; and I, Sha’ul, have become a servant of it.

I rejoice in my present sufferings on your behalf! Yes, I am completing in my own flesh what has been lacking of the Messiah’s afflictions, on behalf of his Body, the Messianic Community.

I became a servant of the Good News because God gave me this work to do for your benefit. The work is to make fully known the message from God,

the secret hidden for generations, for ages, but now made clear to the people he has set apart for himself.

To them God wanted to make known how great among the Gentiles is the glorious richness of this secret. And the secret is this: the Messiah is united with you people! In that rests your hope of glory!

We, for our part, proclaim him; we warn, confront and teach everyone in all wisdom; so that we may present everyone as having reached the goal, united with the Messiah.

It is for this that I toil, striving with all the energy that he stirs up in me so mightily.

that the Good News we brought did not become for you a matter only of words, but also one of power, the Ruach HaKodesh and total conviction — just as you know how we lived for your sakes when we were with you.

For the appeal we make does not flow from error or from impure motives, neither do we try to trick people.

Instead, since God has tested us and found us fit to be entrusted with Good News, this is how we speak: not to win favor with people but with God, who tests our hearts.

For, as you know, never did we employ flattering talk, nor did we put on a false front to mask greed — God is witness.

Nor did we seek human praise — either from you or from others.

As emissaries of the Messiah, we could have made our weight felt; but instead, we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother feeding and caring for her children.

We were so devoted to you that we were glad to share with you not only God’s Good News but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

For you remember, brothers, our toil and hardship, how we worked night and day not to put a burden on any of you while we were proclaiming God’s Good News to you.