15 Bible Verses about Devotion To God
Most Relevant Verses
Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies [dedicating all of yourselves, set apart] as a living sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God, which is your rational (logical, intelligent) act of worship.
You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.
Only fear the Lord [with awe and profound reverence] and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.
to live lives [of honor, moral courage, and personal integrity] worthy of the God who [saves you and] calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
and He died for all, so that all those who live would no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and was raised for their sake.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]?
so that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living for human appetites and desires, but [lives] for the will and purpose of God.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.
I have glorified You [down here] on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.
If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. So then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
It is my own eager expectation and hope, that [looking toward the future] I will not disgrace myself nor be ashamed in anything, but that with courage and the utmost freedom of speech, even now as always, Christ will be magnified and exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
So then, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of [our great] God.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and with all your soul and with all your strength [your entire being].
never lagging behind in diligence; aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord;