49 Bible Verses about Serving God

"No one is able to 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 are not able to serve God and money.

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people,

Whatever you do, accomplish [it] from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people,

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

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

And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you,

If they listen and serve [him], they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

You will return and see [the difference] between [the] righteous and [the] wicked, between [the one who] serves God and the one who does not serve him.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews--

"{Because} [of the fact] that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?

And Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear! You have done all this evil; only do not turn aside from {following} Yahweh. But you must serve Yahweh with all your heart.

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.

And you will there serve gods {made by human hands}, [of] wood and stone, [gods] that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.'"

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."

of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

if [it is] service, by service; if [it is] one who teaches, by teaching;

[because you] know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.

And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.

for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

So the twelve summoned the community of disciples [and] said, "It is not desirable [that] we neglect the word of God to serve tables.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider {what great things he has done for you}.

If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you."

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne {will shelter} them.

By your ordinances they stand today, for all [are] your servants.

of which I became a minister, according to God's stewardship which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God,

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,

Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

when the peoples assemble, together with kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

"So now, revere Yahweh and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness; remove the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.

But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached [and] said, "Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!"

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them.

{If it is so}, our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

For if we are out of our senses, [it is] for God; if we are of sound mind, [it is] for you.

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."