20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit: but the married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Not slothful in business, servent in spirit, serving the Lord:
Continue in prayer, and watch therein with thanksgiving:
And this I say for your own profit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but that ye may decently wait upon the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:
But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me:
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, continue instant in prayer.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cleave to the one and neglect the other.
In brotherly love be full of tender affection toward each other, in honour preferring one another:
And I beseech you, brethren, as ye know the houshold of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to serve the saints,
whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame;
And Jesus answering said to him, Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
For he that is called by the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman; and in like manner, he that is called being free, is the servant of Christ.
For I bear them record, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest have been profited by me: he shall be free.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines; for it is good, that the heart be stablished with grace, not with meats, in which they that have walked have not been profited.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
That ye may walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ constraineth us, while we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus saith to him, If thou desirest to be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, that ye who have followed me, in the renovation, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my names sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and inherit everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.
For to this end was the gospel preached to them that are dead also, 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
And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.
I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, 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 that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Not slothful in business, servent in spirit, serving the Lord:
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
How readest thou? 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 mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof. Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
(for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cleave to the one and neglect the other.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
Jesus said to him, No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
That he would grant us, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
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
Therefore whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
Now I trust in the Lord Jesus, to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be encouraged, when I know your state. For I have none like-minded, who will naturally care for what concerneth you. For all seek their own, not the things of Christ. read more.
But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency 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 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
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And when he had called the people to him, with his disciples also, he said to them, Whosoever is willing to 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 when he had called the people to him, with his disciples also, he said to them, Whosoever is willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
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 substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I exhort you therefore, brethren, by the tender mercies of God, to present your bodies unto God, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, which is your reasonable service.