30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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And your hearts be perfect with Jehovah our God to go in his laws, and to watch his commands as this day.
The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.
And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away.
Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
And ye say, Whoever should say to father or mother, A gift, whatever thou shouldest be profited by me;
Now ye shall give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God; and arise ye and build the holy place of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and the holy vessels of God, to the house being built to the name of Jehovah.
Praise to David. I will exalt thee my God, the King, and I will praise thy name forever and ever.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwell in you. And if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
And I also lent him to Jehovah; all the days which he lives he is lent to Jehovah. And they will worship to Jehovah there.
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way; I will go in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
In brotherly love, being kindly affectioned to one another; in honour preceding one another.
And I beseech you brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and they arranged themselves for service to the holy ones,)
He sacrificing to a God except to Jehovah himself alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
Whose end destruction, whose God the belly, and their glory in shame, having in mind earthly things.)
And having answered him Jesus said, Retire behind me, Satan: for it has been written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
I set Jehovah before me always: for from my right hand I shall not be moved.
For the servant called in the Lord, is the freedman of the Lord: likewise also the freedman called, is the servant of Christ.
For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
And it will be at the time of the old age of Solomon 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.
And ye say, If a man say to father or mother, Corban, which is, a gift, whatever thou be profited by me;
With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.
God faithful, by whom we were called to the communion of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
For Jehovah, his eyes run to and fro in all the earth to strengthen himself with the perfected heart of them to him. Thou wert foolish for this that from now there is wars with thee.
For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then 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 wished to be perfected, retire, sell thy possessions, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, That ye having followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man should sit upon the throne of his glory, shall be seated ye also upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.
For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.
For whether we live, to the Lord we live: and whether we die, to the Lord we die: therefore whether we live, and whether we die, we are of the Lord.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
But fear ye Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for see what he magnified with you.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And love thou Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might
And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.
That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Thy fulness and thy tears thou shalt not delay: the first-born of thy sons thou shalt give to me.
Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
So then, every one of you, who renounces not all of his possessions, cannot be my disciple.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
For you to walk worthy of God, calling you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
And Jesus said to him, No one putting his hand upon the plough, and looking back, is adapted to the kingdom of God.
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.
I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat, whether ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all things to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy quickly to you, that I also be courageous, having known the things concerning you. For I have none having a like soul, who naturally will have care for the things concerning you. For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus. read more.
And ye know his proof, that, as a child to a father, he served with me in the good news.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
Because for the work of Christ he drew near to death, having exposed the soul to danger, that he might fill up your want of service to me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
But fear ye Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for see what he magnified with you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I 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, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All the nations which thou madest shall come and worship before thee, O Jehovah, and they shall do honor to 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 wills to come after me, let him absolutely 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 wills to come after me, let him absolutely deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
And Joanna wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who served him from possessions to them.
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, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.