Dictionaries :: Service, Serving

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Service, Serving:

is rendered "service" in Rom 15:31, AV; "serving" in Luk 10:40.
See MINISTRY, A, No. 1.

Service, Serving:

is rendered "service" in 2Cr 9:12; Phl 2:17, 30.
See MINISTRY, A, No. 2.

Service, Serving:

akin to latreuo (see No. 3, above), primarily "hired service," is used

(a) of the "service" of God in connection with the tabernacle, Rom 9:4; Hbr 9:1, "Divine service;" Hbr 9:6, plural, RV, "services" (AV, "service," and, in italics, "of God");

(b) of the intelligent "service" of believers in presenting their bodies to God, a living sacrifice, Rom 12:1, RV marg., "worship;"

(c) of imagined "service" to God by persecutors of Christ's followers, Jhn 16:2.

Note: For "soldier on service," 2Ti 2:3, RV, see SOLDIER, B.