30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

“If you want to be perfect,” Jesus said to him, “go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Jesus said to them, "I assure you: In the Messianic Age, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on 12 thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

For this reason the gospel was also preached to those who are now dead, so that, although they might be judged by men in the fleshly realm, they might live by God in the spiritual realm.

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Above all, fear the Lord and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things He has done for you.

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

He answered:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires. And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

“You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your vats. Give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not say good-bye to all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to walk worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

we encouraged, comforted, and implored each one of you to walk worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

since we have been rescued
from our enemies’ clutches,
to serve Him without fear

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God’s glory.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I also may be encouraged when I hear news about you. For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father.

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.

For me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth.

Above all, fear the Lord and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things He has done for you.

I will be the same until your old age,
and I will bear you up when you turn gray.
I have made you, and I will carry you;
I will bear and save you.

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

All the nations You have made
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

I have not departed from the commands of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth
more than my daily food.

Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others who were supporting them from their possessions.

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”