you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

if it is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching,

The training of the body is of small service, but religion is of service in all directions; it contains the promise of life both for the present and for the future.

for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,'

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God),

Paul held they should not take a man with them who had deserted them in Pamphylia, instead of accompanying them on active service.

As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

Then, after his term of service had elapsed, he went home.

He gave orders to the officer to have Paul kept in custody but to allow him some freedom and not to prevent any of his own people from rendering him any service.

Now get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you to my service as a witness to what you have seen and to the visions you shall have of me.

set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.