30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

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1 Kings 8:61

Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”

1 Corinthians 7:35

This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,”

1 Chronicles 22:19

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise, therefore, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.”

Psalm 145:1

A Psalm of Praise, of David.
I will extol You, my God, O King,
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.

1 Samuel 1:28

So I have also dedicated him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

1 Corinthians 16:15

Now I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the saints),

1 Corinthians 7:22

For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.

Romans 10:2

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Mark 7:11

but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”

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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ

Matthew 19:28-29

And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit

1 Peter 4:6

For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.

Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies

Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death

Philippians 1:20

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God

Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members

Romans 6:12-13

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance

Exodus 22:29

You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify 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

Luke 1:74

To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,

Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory

Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy

Philippians 2:19-22

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be encouraged when I learn of your condition. For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare. For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. read more.
But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ

Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:30

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me.

Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned

Revelation 3:16

So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God

Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross

Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial

Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints

Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c

Luke 8:3

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.

the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God

Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua

Joshua 24:15

If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

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