39 Bible Verses about Serving

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."

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

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

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

Do you not know that those performing the holy services eat the things from the temple, [and] those attending to the altar have a share with the altar?

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

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!"

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

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

"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.

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

not by works but by the one who calls--it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

"{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 delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served 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 in your midst as the one who serves.

You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;

And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins?

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.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that {my circumstances} have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,

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

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life [as] a ransom for many."

For the one who serves Christ in this [way] [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

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

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