39 Bible Verses about Serving

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Joshua 24:15

and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah -- choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; -- whether the gods whom your fathers served, which are beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house -- we serve Jehovah.'

Job 36:11

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

Luke 10:40

and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, 'Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things --

2 Samuel 22:44

And -- Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.

Luke 22:27

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

Psalm 18:43

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

Jeremiah 27:17

Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

1 Samuel 12:20

And Samuel saith unto the people, 'Fear not; ye have done all this evil; only, turn not aside from after Jehovah -- and ye have served Jehovah with all your heart,

Romans 14:18

for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

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Not Serving God

Nehemiah 9:35

and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

Penalties For Serving Other Gods

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

Serving Asherah

1 Kings 11:5

And Solomon goeth after Ashtoreth goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites;

Serving Christ

Romans 14:18

for he who in these things is serving the Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.

Serving Groups

Exodus 14:12

Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Cease from us, and we serve the Egyptians; for better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in a wilderness?'

Serving Individuals

Genesis 27:40

and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

Serving Kings

1 Samuel 8:11-16

and saith, 'This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots;

Serving One's Own Gods

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua saith unto all the people, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old -- Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor -- and they serve other gods;

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