30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give [the proceeds] to the poor--and you will have treasure in heaven--and come, follow me."

And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that in the renewal [of the world], when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me--you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

Because for this reason also the gospel was preached to those who are dead, so that they were judged {by human standards} in the flesh, but they may live in the spirit {by God's standards}.

For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live [or] whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider {what great things he has done for you}.

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might.

And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that [you] obey its desires, and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

" 'You will not delay the fullness of your harvest and the juice from your press; you will give me the firstborn of your sons.

Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,

"No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.

In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.

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

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

But Jesus said, "No one who puts [his] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"

[that] we, being rescued from the hand of [our] enemies, could serve him without fear

Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

I have glorified you on earth [by] completing the work that you have given me {to do}.

Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all [things] for the glory of God.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged [when I] know {your circumstances}. For I have no one like-minded who [will] sincerely be concerned about {your circumstances}. For they all seek {their own interests}, not those of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

Thus, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth!

Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider {what great things he has done for you}.

Even to [your] old age I [am] he; even to [your] advanced age I myself will support [you]. I myself have made [you], and I myself will carry [you], and I myself will support [you], and I will save [you].

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

All [the] nations that you have made will come and bow down before you, O Lord, and glorify your name.

And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

and Joanna the wife of Chuza (Herod's household manager), and Susanna, and many others who were helping to support them from their possessions.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you [are] living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."