1 Samuel 7:3

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Summary

And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

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Serve him

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:17

Bible References

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And your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God, and you give ear to his word which I give you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul:

And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

Prepare

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

Serve him

Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.

Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

And Jesus in answer said to him, It has been said in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God, and be his servant only.

General references

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.