20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin: she, that is unmarried, careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she, that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how she may please her husband.
not slothful in business: fervent in spirit: serving the Lord.
Persevere in prayer, and be watchful in it, with thanksgiving.
And this I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but in order to recommend that which is fit and becoming before the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, benignity, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
but ye say, If any man say to his father or mother, "that which thou mightest be profited by from me is a gift to the temple,"
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rejoicing in hope, patient under affliction, persevering in prayer,
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or at lest he will be attached to the one, and neglect the other: ye cannot serve God and mammon:
be tenderly affected with brotherly love to each other, in honor preferring one another:
I beseech you, brethren, (for ye know the family of Stephanas, that they are the first-fruits of Achaia, and
whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things) For our conversation is in heaven,
And Jesus answering him said with indignation, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.
For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
but ye say, If a man tell his father or mother, That which thou mightest be profited by from me is Corban, (that is, a gift to the temple) it sufficeth:
be not then carried about by various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be established by grace, and not in meats, in which those that have been most exact, have not profited by them.
for God is faithful by whom ye were called into the communion 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, being fully persuaded of this, 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 replied, If thou wouldst be perfect, go, sell thy estate, 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 tell you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon the twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel: yea and every one who hath left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit eternal life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
and ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
For to this end was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but might 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. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and well-pleasing to God, as your rational service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be put to shame in nothing; but that with all freedom of speech, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
but if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
not slothful in business: fervent in spirit: serving the Lord.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And he answered, 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 neighbor as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
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 at lest he will be attached to the one, and neglect the other: ye cannot serve God and mammon:
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
What! 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. Glorify God therefore in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
and charged you, that ye should walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
and charged you, that ye should walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
But Jesus said unto him, No one, that hath put his hand to the plough and looketh back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
to grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him,
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus saith unto them, My food 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 glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs. For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs. For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. read more.
But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
And He died for all, that those who live might no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
And He died for all, that those who live might no longer 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, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: and if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor:
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will cast 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 beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and well-pleasing to God, as your rational service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And calling the people and his disciples to Him, He said unto 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 calling the people and his disciples to Him, He said unto 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 assisted Him with their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and well-pleasing to God, as your rational service.