49 Bible Verses about Serving God

"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"

because such people are not serving the Messiah our Lord, but their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Serve willingly, as if you were serving the Lord and not merely people,

Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.

Never be lazy in showing such devotion. Be on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

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

You are to serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your food and water, and I'll remove sickness from you.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel about his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not."

I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

"Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly, despite the abundance of everything you have,

You said, "It is futile to serve God,' and, "What did we get out of it when we carried out his requirements and went about like mourners in the presence of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies?'

Samuel told all the people, "Don't be afraid. You have done all this evil. Yet don't turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."

There you'll serve gods made by human hands, serving trees and stones that cannot see, hear, eat, nor smell.

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

But Jesus answered him, "It is written, "You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"

Thank God through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, because with my mind I myself can serve the Law of God, even while with my human nature I serve the law of sin.

"No servant can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth!"

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

If your gift is serving, devote yourself to serving others. If it is teaching, devote yourself to teaching others.

You know that it is from the Lord that you will receive the inheritance as a reward. It is the Lord Messiah whom you are serving!

Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

They exchanged God's truth for a lie and worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah

So the Twelve called the whole group of disciples together and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect messages from God in order to wait on tables.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

Only, fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Indeed, consider what great things he has done for you.

If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

Then he told me, "These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. That is why: "They are in front of the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

To this day they stand by means of your rulings, for all things serve you.

I became its servant as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of the word of God.

Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.

All of them are spirits on a divine mission, sent to serve those who are about to inherit salvation, aren't they?

when people and kingdoms gather together to serve the LORD.

"Now you must fear the LORD and serve him in faithfulness and truth. Throw away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Instead, serve the LORD.

But Martha was worrying about all the things she had to do, so she came to him and asked, "Lord, you do care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself, don't you? Then tell her to help me."

and be holy and righteous before him all of our days.

"Because they've abandoned the covenant of their LORD, the God of their ancestors that he had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshipped other gods whom they had not known and whom he did not assign to them.

Your majesty, if it be his will, our God whom we serve can deliver us from the blazing fire furnace, and he will deliver us from you.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear, trembling, and sincerity, as when you obey the Messiah.

So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.

If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."