• 2 Timothy 2:15-16
  Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
   
• 1 Corinthians 3:2-3
  I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
   
• 1 Corinthians 3:6-10
  I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:5-6
  There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
   
• 1 Timothy 3:4-7
  one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
   
• 2 Timothy 4:2-5
  Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
   
• 2 Corinthians 10:13-16
  We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us—a sphere which especially includes you. For we are not overextending ourselves (as though our authority did not extend to you), for it was to you that we came with the gospel of Christ; not boasting of things beyond measure, that is, in other men's labors, but having hope, that as your faith is increased, we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere, to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's sphere of accomplishment.
   

Related Scriptures

• Ephesians 4:7-8
  But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says:
  ' When He ascended on high,
  He led captivity captive,
  And gave gifts to men.'
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:14-15
  For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body?
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:17-18
  If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:1
  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
   
• 2 Timothy 3:12
  Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
   
• 2 Timothy 3:14-17
  But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
  
   
• Isaiah 58:1
  "Cry aloud, spare not;
  Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
  Tell My people their transgression,
  And the house of Jacob their sins.
  
   
• Matthew 7:21-23
  "Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?" And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!"
   
• 1 Corinthians 1:12-13
  Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul," or "I am of Apollos," or "I am of Cephas," or "I am of Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
   
• 1 Corinthians 3:4
  For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal?
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:4
  There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:11
  But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
   
• Philippians 2:4
  Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
   
• Jude 1:3
  Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
   
• Numbers 16:9
  Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the work of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to serve them;
   
• Numbers 18:21
  “Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting.
   
• Numbers 27:16-20
  "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd." And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight. And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
   
• Isaiah 66:2
  For all those things My hand has made,
  And all those things exist,"
  Says the LORD.
  "But on this one will I look:
  On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
  And who trembles at My word.