30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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Let your heart, therefore, be perfect with the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.
There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,
Persevere in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,
And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is honourable and that ye may attend upon the Lord without impediment.
Clothed, therefore, (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) with bowels of mercies, with kindness, with humility, with meekness, with tolerance,
But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever I might have helped thee with is already my offering unto God,
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built unto the name of the LORD.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, that person is not of him.
Therefore, I also have given him back to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall belong to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and riches.
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth; firm up my heart that I might fear thy name.
loving one another with brotherly love, with honour preferring one another;
I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints),
He that sacrifices unto any god, except unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
I have set the LORD always before me: because when he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman; likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's slave.
For I give testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David, his father.
But ye say, It is enough if a man shall say to his father or mother, It is all Corban, (that is to say, my gift to God) whatever with which thou mightest be profited by me.
Be not taken out of the way with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with foods which have not profited those that have been occupied with them.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly, for from now on thou shalt have wars.
that ye might walk worthy of the Lord, pleasing him in everything, being fruitful in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,
For the charity of the Christ constrains us because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all are dead:
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus said unto him, If thou desire to be perfect, go and sell what thou hast and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
according to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.
For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Only fear the LORD and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done with you.
not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might.
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors; the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and riches.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
that ye would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
that ye would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
And Jesus said unto him, No one having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
that he would grant unto us, that without fear delivered out of the hand of our enemies, we might serve him
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
I have clarified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou didst give me to do.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do everything for the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state. For I have no one likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. read more.
But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
It is in order then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that in the manner ye were taught of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would continue to grow.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Only fear the LORD and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider what great things he has done with you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
And even to your old age I am he, and even to grey hairs I will carry you; I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will deliver you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All the Gentiles whom thou hast made shall come and humble themselves before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And calling the multitude unto him with his disciples, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
And calling the multitude unto him with his disciples, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
Neither have I separated myself from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others who ministered unto him of their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if it seems evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
