Missionary Work by Ministers
47 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
31 sections
- Aid Those Engaged In
- Apostles
- Be Ready to Engage In
- Christ Engaged In
- Christ Sent his Disciples to Labour In
- Commanded
- Directed by the Holy Spirit
- Excellency of
- God Qualifies For
- God Strengthens For
- Guilt and Danger of Shrinking From
- Harmony should Subsist Amongst Those Engaged In
- Jonah
- Levites
- No Limits to the Sphere of
- Noah
- Obligations to Engage In
- Opportunities For, not to be Neglected
- Paul
- Philip
- Required
- Requires Wisdom and Meekness
- Silas
- Success of a Cause of Joy
- Success of a Cause of Praise
- Success of To be Prayed For
- The Holy Spirit Calls To
- The Seventy
- Timotheus
- Warranted by Predictions Concerning the Heathen
- Worldly Concerns should not Delay
Aid Those Engaged In
- Romans 16:1–2 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. …
- 2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
- 3 John 5–8 Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you. …
Apostles
- Mark 6:12 So they set out and preached that the people should repent.
- Acts 13:2–5 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” …
Be Ready to Engage In
- Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!”
Christ Engaged In
- Matthew 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
- Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
- Matthew 11:1 After Jesus had finished instructing His twelve disciples, He went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
- Mark 1:38–39 But Jesus answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns so I can preach there as well, for that is why I have come.” …
- Luke 8:1 Soon afterward, Jesus traveled from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,
Christ Sent his Disciples to Labour In
- Mark 3:14 He appointed twelve of them, whom He designated as apostles, to accompany Him, to be sent out to preach,
- Mark 6:7 Then Jesus called the Twelve to Him and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.
- Luke 10:1–11 After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit. …
Commanded
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Directed by the Holy Spirit
- Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Excellency of
- Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Romans 10:15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
God Qualifies For
- Exodus 3:11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
- Exodus 3:18 The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so …
- Exodus 4:11–12 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD? …
- Exodus 4:15 You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
- Isaiah 6:5–9 Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.” …
God Strengthens For
- Jeremiah 1:7–9 But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. …
Guilt and Danger of Shrinking From
- Jonah 1:3–4 Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. …
Harmony should Subsist Amongst Those Engaged In
- Galatians 2:9 And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John — those reputed to be pillars — gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
Jonah
- Jonah 3:2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
Levites
- 2 Chronicles 17:8–9 accompanied by certain Levites — Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah — along with the priests Elishama and Jehoram. …
No Limits to the Sphere of
- Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Revelation 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth — to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.
Noah
- 2 Peter 2:5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
Obligations to Engage In
- Acts 4:19–20 But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God. …
- Romans 1:13–15 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. …
- 1 Corinthians 9:16 Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
Opportunities For, not to be Neglected
- 1 Corinthians 16:9 because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
Paul
- Acts 13:2–4 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” …
Philip
- Acts 8:5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
Required
- Luke 10:2 And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.
- Romans 10:14–15 How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? …
Requires Wisdom and Meekness
- Matthew 10:16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Silas
- Acts 15:40–41 but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. …
Success of a Cause of Joy
- Acts 15:3 Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
Success of a Cause of Praise
- Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
- Acts 21:19–20 Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. …
Success of To be Prayed For
- Ephesians 6:18–19 Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. …
- Colossians 4:3 as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
The Holy Spirit Calls To
- Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
The Seventy
- Luke 10:1 After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He was about to visit.
- Luke 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”
Timotheus
- Acts 16:3 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
Warranted by Predictions Concerning the Heathen
- Isaiah 42:10–12 Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them. …
- Isaiah 66:19 I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So …
Worldly Concerns should not Delay
- Luke 9:59–62 Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.