Bible Verses About Support for Ministry

For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the Lord.

Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord, to repair the breaches of the house,