19 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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Attend to your prayers, maintain your zest for prayer by thanksgiving;
I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord.
As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper ??13 forbear and forgive each other in any case of complaint; as Christ forgave you, so must you forgive.
But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,'
But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells within you. Anyone who does not possess the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.
let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,
No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.
Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!
Jesus answered him, "It is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ
But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God),
Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.
Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!
for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."
Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, in the new world, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones to govern the twelve tribes of Israel. Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself."
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions; you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.
nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
So with everyone of you who will not part with all his goods he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
Jesus said to him, "No one is any use to the Reign of God who puts his hand to the plough and then looks behind him."
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send you Timotheus before long, that I may be heartened by news of you. I have no one like him, for genuine interest in your welfare. Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you 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
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.