39 Bible Verses about Serving

If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

Do you not know that those who perform sacred services eat the food of the temple, and those who attend regularly to the altar have their share from the altar?

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

But Martha was distracted with all her preparations; and she came up to Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? Then tell her to help me.”

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

For such men are slaves, not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.”

“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;

“You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people;
You have kept me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

Now I want you to know, brethren, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,

With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

For he who in this way serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.