30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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And let your heart be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.
The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Continue in prayer and watch in it with thanksgiving,
And this I speak for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is right, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering,
But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother, Whatever you would gain from me, It is a gift to God;
Now set your heart and your soul to seek Jehovah your God. Arise therefore and build the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Jehovah.
Praise, of David. I will lift You up, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
And I have returned him to Jehovah. As long as he lives, he shall be given to Jehovah. And he worshiped Jehovah there.
rejoicing in hope, patient in affliction, steadfastly continuing 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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Teach me Your way, O Jehovah; I will walk in Your truth; my heart rejoices to fear Your name.
in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.
Oh my soul, you have said to Jehovah, You are my Lord; I have no goodness apart from You.
But I exhort you, brothers. You know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruit of Achaia, and they appointed themselves to ministry to the saints.
whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, those who mind earthly things.)
And Jesus answered and said to him, Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve."
I have set Jehovah always before Me; because He is at My right hand, I shall not be moved.
For he who is called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, he who is called a free man is a slave of Christ.
For I bear record to them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For it happened when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban! (that is, A gift to God, whatever you may profit by me)
Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.
God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. You have done foolishly in this; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, that if one died for all, then all died;
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.
And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who left 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 everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
For to this end the gospel was preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
for you are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.
For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Only fear Jehovah, and serve Him in truth with all your heart. For consider what great things He has done for you.
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And you shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
And answering, he said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and juices of your vintage. You shall give the first-born of your sons to 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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
So then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own, for you 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 you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
And Jesus said to him, No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
that He would grant to us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
I have glorified You upon the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state. For I have no one who is like-minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you 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
For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because for the work of Christ he was near 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 because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Only fear Jehovah, and serve Him in truth with all your heart. For consider what great things He has done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
even to old age I am He; and to gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And calling near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever 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 near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to Him of their possessions.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.