39 Bible Verses about Serving
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And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in blessedness, and their years in pleasures.
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Do you not know that those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.
And Jesus answered and said to him, Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve."
But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she came to Him and said, Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.
If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
For they who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple.
And the Twelve called near the multitude of the disciples and said, It is not pleasing to us, leaving the Word of God, to serve tables.
No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things;
You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people, You have kept me the head of the nations. A people I knew not shall serve me.
For which is the greater; he who reclines, or he who serves? Is it not he who reclines? But I am among you as He who serves.
You have delivered Me from the strivings of the people; You have made Me the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known shall serve Me.
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. For why should this city be laid waste?
And Samuel said to the people, Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness. Yet do not turn aside from following Jehovah, but serve Jehovah with all your heart.
But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel;
even as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you
Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.
Topics on Serving
Animals Serving Human Needs
Genesis 3:21And for Adam and his wife Jehovah God made coats of skins, and clothed them.
Heaven And Serving God
Matthew 6:10Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Not Serving God
Nehemiah 9:35For they have not served You in their kingdom, and in Your great goodness which You gave them, and in the large and rich land which You gave before them, and they did not turn from their wicked works.
Penalties For Serving Other Gods
Deuteronomy 11:28and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
Serving Asherah
1 Kings 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites;
Serving Christ
Romans 14:18For he who serves Christ in these things is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men.
Serving God
Matthew 6:24No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Serving Groups
Exodus 14:12Did we not tell you this word in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, so that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.
Serving Individuals
Genesis 27:40And by your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother. And it shall be when you shall have the dominion, you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
Serving Jesus
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
Serving Kings
1 Samuel 8:11-16And he said, This will be the privilege of the king who shall reign over you. He shall take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and his horsemen. And they shall run before his chariots.
Serving One's Own Gods
Joshua 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived Beyond the River in times past, Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
Serving People
1 Peter 4:10each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.