30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving;
But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:
Now set your heart and your soul to seek Jehovah your God; and arise and build the sanctuary of Jehovah Elohim, to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the vessels of the sanctuary of God into the house that is to be built unto the name of Jehovah.
{A Psalm of praise. Of David.} I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
But ye are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwell in you; but if any one has not the Spirit of Christ he is not of him:
And also I have lent him to Jehovah: all the days that he lives, he is lent to Jehovah. And he worshipped Jehovah there.
As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:
Thou my soul hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; --
But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:)
And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.
I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.
For I bear them witness that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
And it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
But ye say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by ...
Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them.
God is faithful, by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
so as to walk worthily of the Lord unto all well-pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing by the true knowledge of God;
For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus said to him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell what thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say unto you, That ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit down upon his throne of glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.
For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Only, fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth, with all your heart; for see how great things he has done for you.
as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength.
But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts. Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own? for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
I have glorified thee on the earth, I have completed the work which thou gavest me that I should do it;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God's glory.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on. For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on. For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. read more.
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
Thus because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spue thee out of my mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Only, fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth, with all your heart; for see how great things he has done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
Even to old age, I am HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry you: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Amorite, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.