Ephesians 4:12

New Century Version

Christ gave those gifts to prepare God’s holy people for the work of serving, to make the body of Christ stronger.

Cross References

Luke 22:32

I have prayed that you will not lose your faith! Help your brothers be stronger when you come back to me.”

Acts 11:23

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and full of faith. When he reached Antioch and saw how God had blessed the people, he was glad. He encouraged all the believers in Antioch always to obey the Lord with all their hearts, and many people became followers of the Lord.

Acts 20:24

I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

Acts 9:31

The church everywhere in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace and became stronger. Respecting the Lord by the way they lived, and being encouraged by the Holy Spirit, the group of believers continued to grow.

Romans 12:5

In the same way, we are many, but in Christ we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body, and each part belongs to all the other parts.

Romans 12:7

Anyone who has the gift of serving should serve. Anyone who has the gift of teaching should teach.

Romans 14:19

So let us try to do what makes peace and helps one another.

Romans 15:14

My brothers and sisters, I am sure that you are full of goodness. I know that you have all the knowledge you need and that you are able to teach each other.

Romans 15:2

Let each of us please our neighbors for their good, to help them be stronger in faith.

Romans 15:29

I know that when I come to you I will bring Christ’s full blessing.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Together you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of that body.

1 Corinthians 12:7

Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good.

1 Corinthians 14:12

It is the same with you. Since you want spiritual gifts very much, seek most of all to have the gifts that help the church grow stronger.

1 Corinthians 14:14

If I pray in a different language, my spirit is praying, but my mind does nothing.

1 Corinthians 14:26

So, brothers and sisters, what should you do? When you meet together, one person has a song, and another has a teaching. Another has a new truth from God. Another speaks in a different language, and another person interprets that language. The purpose of all these things should be to help the church grow strong.

2 Corinthians 12:19

Do you think we have been defending ourselves to you all this time? We have been speaking in Christ and before God. You are our dear friends, and everything we do is to make you stronger.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, I say good-bye. Live in harmony. Do what I have asked you to do. Agree with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 Corinthians 13:9

We are happy to be weak, if you are strong, and we pray that you will become complete.

2 Corinthians 3:8

So surely the new way that brings the Spirit has even more glory.

2 Corinthians 4:1

God, with his mercy, gave us this work to do, so we don’t give up.

2 Corinthians 5:18

All this is from God. Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself, and God gave us the work of telling everyone about the peace we can have with him.

2 Corinthians 6:3

We do not want anyone to find fault with our work, so nothing we do will be a problem for anyone.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Dear friends, we have these promises from God, so we should make ourselves pure—free from anything that makes body or soul unclean. We should try to become holy in the way we live, because we respect God.

Ephesians 1:23

which is Christ’s body. The church is filled with Christ, and Christ fills everything in every way.

Ephesians 4:16

The whole body depends on Christ, and all the parts of the body are joined and held together. Each part does its own work to make the whole body grow and be strong with love.

Ephesians 4:29

When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need—words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you.

Ephesians 4:4

There is one body and one Spirit, and God called you to have one hope.

Colossians 1:24

I am happy in my sufferings for you. There are things that Christ must still suffer through his body, the church. I am accepting, in my body, my part of these things that must be suffered.

Colossians 1:28

So we continue to preach Christ to each person, using all wisdom to warn and to teach everyone, in order to bring each one into God’s presence as a mature person in Christ.

Colossians 4:17

Tell Archippus, “Be sure to finish the work the Lord gave you.”

1 Timothy 1:12

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who gave me strength, because he trusted me and gave me this work of serving him.

2 Timothy 4:11

Luke is the only one still with me. Get Mark and bring him with you when you come, because he can help me in my work here.

2 Timothy 4:5

But you should control yourself at all times, accept troubles, do the work of telling the Good News, and complete all the duties of a servant of God.

Hebrews 13:17

Obey your leaders and act under their authority. They are watching over you, because they are responsible for your souls. Obey them so that they will do this work with joy, not sadness. It will not help you to make their work hard.

Hebrews 6:1

So let us go on to grown-up teaching. Let us not go back over the beginning lessons we learned about Christ. We should not again start teaching about faith in God and about turning away from those acts that lead to death.