The people, seeing him so loyal a lover of his country’s renown, made him their ruler and high priest; no less was due to such exploits, public service so faithfully done, such constant ambition for his people’s honour.
Never saw Israel so treacherous a deed, or good service so ill rewarded.
and now he had recourse to king Demetrius, in the hundred and fiftieth year. He came with gifts, a gold crown and a palm branch, and wreaths that had been better employed in the service of the temple.✻ No word said he on the first day of his arriving;
And Judas? Not for nothing had he devoted body and soul, this long while, to the service of his fellow countrymen! Nicanor’s head, and one of his arms cut off from the shoulder downwards, he bade them carry to Jerusalem;
then father or mother can get no service from him. So by these traditions of yours you have made God’s law ineffectual.
So it is that the Son of Man did not come to have service done him; he came to serve others, and to give his life as a ransom for the lives of many.✻
So it is that the Son of Man did not come to have service done him; he came to serve others, and to give his life as a ransom for the lives of many.✻
following the tradition of those first eye-witnesses who gave themselves up to the service of the word.✻
to live without fear in his service, delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Jesus answered him, It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God; to him only shalt thou do service.✻
What shall we do, then, they asked him, so as to work in God’s service?
Jesus answered them, This is the service God asks of you, to believe in the Man whom he has sent.
While daylight lasts, I must work in the service of him who sent me; the night is coming, when there is no working any more.✻
no human handicraft can do him service, as if he stood in need of anything, he, who gives to all of us life and breath and all we have.
Now we are quit of the claim which death had on us, so that we can do service in a new manner, according to the spirit, not according to the letter as of old.✻
It is for this same reason that you pay taxes; magistrates are in God’s service, and must give all their time to it.
Such is the badge of Christ’s service which wins acceptance with God, and the good opinion of our fellow men.
My greetings to Prisca and Aquila, who have worked at my side in the service of Christ Jesus,✻
My greetings to Andronicus and Junias, kinsmen and fellow prisoners of mine, who have won repute among the apostles that were in Christ’s service before me.✻
to Apelles, a man tried in Christ’s service;