Serving others is a fundamental aspect of the Christian life, as believers are called to use their gifts and talents to bless and support one another. According to 1 Peter 4:10, each person has received a special gift, and they are to use it to serve others. The apostle Paul teaches in Galatians 5:13 that Christians have been called to freedom, but this freedom is not for self-indulgence, rather to serve one another in love. Jesus Himself set the ultimate example of service, as recorded in Mark 10:45, where He came not to be served, but to serve and give His life as a ransom for many, and Colossians 3:23-24 encourages believers to work heartily, as if serving the Lord.
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As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
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.
Show hospitality to one another without complaining. As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another. If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
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.”
Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’ Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? When did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?’ And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.”
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
No one 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.