1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel told the entire nation of Israel: If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts you must get rid of the foreign gods you have, including the statues of the goddess Astarte. You must dedicate your lives to Jehovah and serve him only. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.
Joshua 24:14
Honor Jehovah and serve him sincerely and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only Jehovah.
Genesis 35:2
Jacob said to his family and those who were with him: Get rid of the foreign gods that you have. Wash yourselves until you are ritually clean. Change your clothes.
Deuteronomy 6:13
You must respect Jehovah your God. Serve him and swear by his name!
Deuteronomy 13:4
Follow Jehovah and respect him. Obey him and keep his commandments. Worship him and be faithful to him (stick to him) (stay close to him) (cleave, cling to him).
Judges 2:13
They forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to Jehovah, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Matthew 4:10
Go away, Satan! demanded Jesus. It is written, It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him alone you must render sacred service.' (Deuteronomy 6:13-15)
Luke 4:8
Jesus answered: It is written, you shall worship Jehovah your God and him only shall you serve. (Deuteronomy 6:13-15; 10:12; 10:20) (Exodus 20:3-5)
Deuteronomy 10:20
Respect Jehovah your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
Joshua 24:23
Remove the foreign gods you have. He demanded: Pledge your loyalty to Jehovah, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:48
If they change their attitude toward you in the land of their enemies where they are captives, if they pray to you toward the land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
Deuteronomy 30:2-10
If you and your children return to Jehovah your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your being, doing everything I command you today,
2 Chronicles 30:19
who have their hearts set on dedicating their lives to serve God. May Jehovah the God of their ancestors do this for those who are not clean as required for the holy place.
Joel 2:12-13
Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!
Judges 10:6
Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.
Judges 10:16
So they removed the foreign gods and worshiped Jehovah. He could bear the distress of Israel no longer.
1 Samuel 31:10
They put his armor in the temple of their goddesses the Asherahs and fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan.
1 Chronicles 22:19
Devote your mind and heart to seek Jehovah your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of Jehovah God. That way you may bring the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah and the sacred articles belonging to God into the Temple that will be built for the name of Jehovah.
1 Chronicles 28:9
You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.
2 Chronicles 19:3
Regardless of this, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah that people worshiped. You have tried to follow God's will.
Job 11:13-14
Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
Proverbs 16:1
Preparations of the heart and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah.
Jeremiah 4:3-4
Jehovah says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed fields, and do not plant among thorns.
Ezekiel 18:31
Give up all the evil you have been doing. Get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?
Hosea 6:1-2
Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.
Hosea 14:1
Return, O Israel, to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Matthew 6:24
You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).
Matthew 15:8
These people honor me with their lips, but their heart (innermost thoughts) is far from me.
John 4:24
God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.