Servants

Hallelujah! Give praise, O servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.

Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!

Hallelujah! Praise the name of the LORD. Give praise, O servants of the LORD,

He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,

…who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

And I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and heirs from Judah; My elect will possess My mountains, and My servants will dwell there.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

…and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’

This is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

They answered a second time, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will give the interpretation.”

Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing fiery furnace and called out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire,

Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.

…and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. So the servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’

…and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and recounted all of this to their master.

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.

Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited were not worthy.

So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.

After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.

…just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

And the Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their portion at the proper time?

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.

So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

Beforehand, he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. ‘Conduct business with this until I return,’ he said.

When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

Jesus told the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim.

…and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside

And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.

One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,

When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among his attendants.

This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!”

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role.

So then, men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.

It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:

Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”

Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.