Bible Verses About All Christians Should Be As Missionaries

for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

because, according to their power, I testify, and above their power, they were willing of themselves,

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply--having come from Macedonia--and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

but ye did well, having communicated with my tribulation;

and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;

because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

praying at the same time also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the secret of the Christ, because of which also I have been bound,

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

and as an enemy count him not, but admonish ye him as a brother;

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,