Bible Verses About All Christians Should Be As Missionaries

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

For the love of Messiah constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Messiah, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Let the word of Messiah dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Messiah, for which I am also in bonds;

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the holy ones’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;