20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

"If you want to be perfect," said Jesus, "go, sell your property, give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus answered, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also who have followed me shall sit on twelve thrones, to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. "And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

You are not your own; for you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your bodies.

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

If we live, we live unto our Lord; if we die, we die unto our Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we belong to our Lord.

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

"You must love the Lord your God," he answered, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts. Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.

"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

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

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

"That he we should be delivered out of the Hand of our enemies, And should serve him without fear,

Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Because whether you are eating or whether you are drinking, you are to do it all for the glory of God.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you. For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare, for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. read more.
And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

and that he died for all in order that the living may live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again for them.

for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Would that you were either cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my mouth.

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

Then summoning the crowd to him, with his disciples. he said: "If any man wishes to follow me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and so follow me.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.