30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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And I pray God that your hearts may be sound with the LORD our God, to walk in his ordinances and to keep his laws as we do this day."
There is difference between a virgin and a wife. The single woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be pure both in body and also in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.
Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,
This speak I for your profit, not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comely unto you; And that ye may quietly cleave unto the Lord without separation.
Now therefore as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering,
But ye say, 'Every man shall say to his father or mother: That which thou desirest of me to help thee with, is given God.'
Now therefore set your hearts and your souls to seek the LORD your God. And up, and build ye the temple of the LORD God, to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God into the house so built for the name of the LORD."
{A Praise of David} I will magnify thee, O God my king; I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
But ye are not given to the flesh; But to the spirit: If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. If there be any man that hath not the spirit of Christ, the same is none of his.
and therefore I also lend him the LORD, as long as he may be lent the LORD." And so they prayed there unto the LORD.
Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation, continue in prayer.
No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Lead me in thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth: O let my heart delight in fearing thy name.
Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.
O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, "Thou art my God, my goods are nothing like unto thee."
Brethren, ye know the house of Stephanas, how that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have appointed themselves to minister unto the saints:
He that offereth unto any gods save unto the LORD only, let him die without redemption.
whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.
Jesus answered him, and said, "Hence from me, Satan. For it is written, 'Thou shalt honour the Lord thy God, and him only serve.'"
I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.
For he that is called in the Lord being a servant, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise he that is called being free, is Christ's servant.
For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.
For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart after other gods: so that his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
But ye say, 'A man shall say to his father or mother, Corban; which is, that thou desirest of me, to help thee with, is given to God.'
Be not carried about with divers and strange learning. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, and not with meats, which have not profited them that have had their pastime in them.
For God is faithful, by whom ye are called unto the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the eyes of the LORD behold all the earth, to strengthen the hearts of them that are whole with him. Herein thou hast done foolishly, and therefore from henceforth thou shalt have war."
that ye might walk worthy of the Lord in all things that please, being fruitful in all good works and increasing in the knowledge of God
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead:
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
And Jesus said unto him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give it to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me."
Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say to you, When the son of man shall sit in the seat of his majesty, ye which follow me in the second generation shall sit also upon twelve seats, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.
For unto this purpose, verily, was the gospel preached unto the dead; that they should be condemned of men in the flesh, but should live before God in the spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
as I heartily look for and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed: but that with all confidence, as always in times past, even so now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be through life, or else death.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Only fear you the LORD and serve him truly with all your hearts: for he hath done great things for you.
Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might.
And he answered and said, "Thou shalt love thy Lord God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thyself."
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies, that ye should thereunto obey in the lusts of it. Neither give ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: But give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from death. And give your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Thy fruits, whether they be dry or moist, see thou keep not back. Thy firstborn son thou shalt give me:
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No man can serve two masters: For either he shall hate the one, and love the other; or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Either, know ye not how that your bodies are the temple of the holy ghost, which is in you, whom he have of God, and how that ye are not your own? For ye are dearly bought. Therefore glorify ye God in your bodies and in your spirits, for they are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
that ye would walk worthy of God, which hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
that ye would walk worthy of God, which hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
Jesus said unto him, "No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God."
That we, delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear:
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the praise of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
I trust in the Lord Jesus for to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know what case ye stand in. For I have no man that is so like minded to me, which with so pure affection careth for your matters. For all others seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christ's. read more.
Ye know the proof of him, how that as a son with the father, so with me bestowed he his labour upon the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because that for the work of Christ he went so far, that he was nigh unto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So then, because thou art between both, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth:
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Only fear you the LORD and serve him truly with all your hearts: for he hath done great things for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
I, I which shall bear you unto your last age, I have made you; I will also nourish you, bear you and save you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and shall glorify thy name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And he called the people unto him, with his disciples also, and said unto them, "Whosoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
And he called the people unto him, with his disciples also, and said unto them, "Whosoever will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
and Joanna the wife of Chuzaa, Herod's steward; And Susanna; And many others: which ministered unto them of their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
But if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, then choose you this day, whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the water, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land, ye dwelt. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."