DEACON

Passages on this topic · 17

• Matthew 23:11

  But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

• Mark 10:43

  But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

• John 12:26

  If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

• Acts 6:1

  Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

• Acts 6:2

  The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

• Acts 6:3

  Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

• Acts 6:4

  But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

• Acts 6:5

  These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

• Acts 6:6

  whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

• 1 Corinthians 3:5

  Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

• 1 Thessalonians 3:2

  and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

• 1 Timothy 3:8

  Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

• 1 Timothy 3:9

  holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

• 1 Timothy 3:10

  Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

• 1 Timothy 3:11

  Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

• 1 Timothy 3:13

  For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.