20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;
But ye say, If any man declare to his father or mother, This is a [devoted] gift, which else might have been employed by me for thy advantage;
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:
Now I exhort you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints:)
whose end is perdition, whose God is their belly, and their glory in their shame, whose minds are occupied with earthly things.
And Jesus answering him, said, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and to him alone shalt thou pay divine honour."
For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ.
For I am a witness for them, that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
But ye affirm, If a man say to his father or mother, it is Corban (that is, a gift), which otherwise might have been advantageous to thee from me;
Be not tossed about by various and strange doctrines: for it is good to have the heart firmly established by grace, not by meats, in which observances they who have walked have found no manner of advantage.
Faithful is God, by whom ye have been called into communion with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
that ye may walk worthy of the Lord, well pleasing him in all things, in every good work fruitful, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge thus, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus said to him, If thou art desirous to be perfect, go, sell all thy substance, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Then said Jesus unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye who have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who hath left family, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit life eternal.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
For to this end was the gospel preached to those that are dead, that they might be judged indeed in the flesh according to the will of men, but live in spirit according to the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.
For whether we live, to the Lord we live, and whether we die, to the Lord we die; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And he answering said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, and with all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself."
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof. Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.
that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
So then, every one of you who will not part with all his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
But Jesus said unto him, No man laying his hand on the plough, and looking to the things left behind, is fit for the kingdom of God.
to give us, that we, secure from fear, rescued from the hands of our enemies, should serve him,
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
I have glorified thee upon earth: I have completed the work which thou gavest me to perform.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all things to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be refreshed in spirit, when I know your affairs. For I have no one like minded with him, who will genuinely care for your affairs. For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. read more.
But ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
I wish thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit thee 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
I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
Then calling to him the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whosoever will 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
Then calling to him the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
And Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's lieutenant-governor, and Susanna, and many others, who ministred to his support out of their possessions.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.