39 Bible Verses about Serving

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!"

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

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

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

Don't you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

"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.

And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

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

You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?'"

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.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not 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 pleasing to God and approved by people.

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

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.