Colossians 1:25

WEB

²⁵of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

KJV

²⁵Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

BSB

²⁵I became its servant by the commission God gave me to fully proclaim to you the word of God,

FBV

²⁵I serve the church following the direction God gave me about you, to present fully the word of God to you.

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Extra References

Ephesians 3:2

²if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

²³if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Galatians 2:7-8

⁷but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised— ⁸for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

2 Timothy 4:2-5

²preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching. ³For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables. ⁵But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

1 Timothy 4:6

⁶If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Romans 15:15-19

¹⁵But I write the more boldly to you in part as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God, ¹⁶that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. ¹⁸For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

1 Thessalonians 3:2

²and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

1 Corinthians 9:17

¹⁷For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.