20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back here and follow me."

Jesus said to them: "I solemnly say to you, in the new order of life, when the Son of Man shall take His seat on His glorious throne, you too, who have followed me, will sit on twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead too, that they may be judged in their physical nature as men are, but live in the Spirit as God does.

for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

in accordance with my eager expectation and hope that I shall never disgrace myself, but that now as always hitherto, by my all-conquering courage, whether by living or dying, Christ will be honored in me.

indeed, if we live, we always live in relation to the Lord, and if we die, we always die in relation to the Lord. So whether we live or die we belong to the Lord.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

Then he answered, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind, and your neighbor as you do yourself."

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires, and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

"Just so, no one of you who does not forsake everything that he has, can be a disciple of mine.

Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own, for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

to live lives worthy of God who calls you into His kingdom and His glory.

to live lives worthy of God who calls you into His kingdom and His glory.

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow, and then continues to look back, is fitted for service in the kingdom of God."

to grant us deliverance from the dreaded hand of our foes, so that we could serve Him

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

So if you eat or drink or do anything else, do everything to honor God.

I hope, with the approval of the Lord Jesus, soon to send Timothy to you, so that I too may be cheered on getting the news about you. For I have no one else with a heart like his who would take such genuine interest in you, for most people are looking out for their own interests, not for the interests of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.

and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

because he came near dying for the sake of the Lord's work and risked his life to make up for your lack of opportunity to minister to me.

For to me living means Christ and dying brings gain.

As it is, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth.

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many other women, who continued to contribute to their needs out of their personal means.

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.