39 Bible Verses about Serving

But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”

If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.

if service, in service;
if teaching, in teaching;

Do not lack diligence; be fervent in spirit; serve the Lord.

Don’t you know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

And Jesus answered him, “It is written:

Worship the Lord your God,
and serve Him only.”

But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t You care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”

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

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

“No one can be a slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and of money.

There are different ministries, but the same Lord.

not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.

Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, even though you had an abundance of everything,

You have freed me from the feuds among my people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

For who is greater, the one at the table or the one serving? Isn’t it the one at the table? But I am among you as the One who serves.

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

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

Samuel replied, “Don’t be afraid. Even though you have committed all this evil, don’t turn away from following the Lord. Instead, worship the Lord with all your heart.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the advance of the gospel,

Serve with a good attitude, 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.”

Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about His Son, is my witness that I constantly mention you,

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.