20 Bible Verses about

Serving Others at Work

Exodus 1:14 BSB

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

Luke 16:13 BSB

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Luke 10:40 BSB

But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!”

Isaiah 44:2 BSB

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Matthew 25:16 BSB

The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.

Psalm 107:12 BSB

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

1 Samuel 25:41 BSB

She arose, bowed facedown, and said, “Here is your servant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

Exodus 21:2 BSB

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

1 Kings 12:7 BSB

They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Daniel 6:20 BSB

When he reached the den, he cried out in a voice of anguish, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”

Joshua 22:5 BSB

But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Psalm 104:23 BSB

Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

John 4:38 BSB

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

Isaiah 32:17 BSB

The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

Galatians 5:13 BSB

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

Mark 10:45 BSB

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

1 Peter 4:10 BSB

As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

2 Chronicles 29:11 BSB

Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

1 Samuel 26:19 BSB

Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

James 1:5 BSB

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

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