30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Continue in prayer, and watch in it with thanksgiving;
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
But you say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift devoted to God, whatsoever you might have received from me;
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build you the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
[A Psalm of praise of David.] I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; constant in prayer;
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
I beseech you, brethren, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
He that sacrifices unto any god, except unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get you behind me, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
For 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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
But you say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift devoted to God, whatsoever you might have received from me; he shall be free.
Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that have been observing them.
God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars.
That you might walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, 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 unto him, If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of the outflow of your presses: the firstborn of your sons shall you give unto me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify 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 you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. read more.
But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
And that he died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
And that he died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
Because for the work of Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All nations which you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto 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
And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto 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
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto him of their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.