49 Bible Verses about Serving God

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

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

Whatever you are doing, work at it with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people,

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

Serve the Lord in fear! Repent in terror!

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

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

"Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

You have said, 'It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Then Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid. You have indeed sinned. However, don't turn aside from the Lord. Serve the Lord with all your heart.

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

There you will worship gods made by human hands -- wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor 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,

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

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

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

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

Am I now trying to gain 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 a slave of Christ!

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

because you know that you will receive your inheritance from the Lord as the reward. Serve the Lord Christ.

Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

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

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ,

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'

However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.

Today they stand firm by your decrees, for all things are your servants.

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God -- given to me for you -- in order to complete the word of God,

Give a shepherd's care to God's flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God's direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those who will inherit salvation?

when the nations gather together, and the kingdoms pay tribute to the Lord.

Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

in holiness and righteousness before him for as long as we live.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well.

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

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

If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!"