30 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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Let your hearts be committed to Jehovah our God. Then you will live by his laws and keep his commands as you have today.
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. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Do not lag behind in diligence. Be fervent in spirit serving God.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being vigilant with thanksgiving.
I say this for your benefit and not to restrict you. I show you how to live a noble life of devotion to the Lord without being distracted by other things.
As God's chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness (humility), meekness (mildness), and long-suffering (patience).
You teach that a man should tell his father or mother that what he has that could help them, is given to God.
Devote your mind and heart to seek Jehovah your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of Jehovah God. That way you may bring the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah and the sacred articles belonging to God into the Temple that will be built for the name of Jehovah.
([Psalm of David]) I will praise you, my God and King! I will consecrate your name forever and ever.
But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.
So I am dedicating (giving) (granting) him to Jehovah. As long as he lives, he will belong to Jehovah. Then they worshiped Jehovah there.
Rejoice in hope! Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer.
You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).
Teach me your way, O Jehovah, so that I may live in your truth. Unite my heart to reverence you.
Be devoted to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another.
I exhort you, brothers, you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the holy ones.
Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.
Jesus answered: It is written, you shall worship Jehovah your God and him only shall you serve. (Deuteronomy 6:13-15; 10:12; 10:20) (Exodus 20:3-5)
I always keep Jehovah in front of me. When he is at my right hand (assisting me), I cannot be moved.
He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave.
I testify that they have zeal for God, but not according to [precise and correct] knowledge.
When Solomon was old he allowed his heart to be turned away to other gods by his wives. His heart was no longer true to Jehovah his God as the heart of his father David had been.
But you say: 'If a man says to his father or his mother that which would benefit you is a gift to God,
Do not be carried away by varied (different) and strange teachings. It is good that the heart is established by grace and not by food. Those who are occupied by them are not benefited.
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
The eyes of Jehovah keep close watch over the entire world. He gives strength (shows His strength) to (in behalf of) those whose hearts are loyal to him. You have acted foolishly! Therefore from now on you will always be at war.
Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.
For the love of Christ compels us to judge, that one died for all and therefore all died.
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Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Giving up all for Christ
Jesus then replied: If you wish to be complete, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor. You will have wealth in heaven. Then follow me!
Jesus replied: Truly I say to you, when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
The good news was preached for this purpose even to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but may live according to God in the spirit.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our bodies
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you 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
I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death.
For if we live, we live to God and if we die, we die to God. Therefore should we live or die, we are God's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Reverence Jehovah and serve him in truth with all your heart. Remember the great things he has done for you.
Do not lag behind in diligence. Be fervent in spirit serving God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with your entire mind and with all your strength.
He answered: Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself. (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18)
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let no sin rule in your mortal body, that you should obey the lustful desires. Also do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Do not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. Give the firstborn of your sons to me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).
Likewise, concluded Jesus, none of you may be my disciples unless you give up everything you have.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own. You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
You should walk worthily of God, who called you into his own kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
You should walk worthily of God, who called you into his own kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
Jesus responded: No man, who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.
He gave us deliverance out of the hand of our enemies so we could serve him without fear.
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said: My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly that I may be encouraged when I know your circumstances. For I have no man likeminded, who will truly care for you. They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know of his proven worth. It was like a son with his father that he served with me to further the good news.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Furthermore, we encourage you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from 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
He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your 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
Because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » God, Goodness of
Reverence Jehovah and serve him in truth with all your heart. Remember the great things he has done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
Even in your old age with gray hair I am he, I am he who will support you. I have made you and I will bear your burden (take care of you). I will sustain (support) (strengthen) you and I will rescue you (keep you safe).
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The mercies of God
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All the nations that you have made will bow in your presence, Jehovah. They will honor (glorify) you.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
He then spoke to both his disciples and the crowd. He said: If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Self-denial
He then spoke to both his disciples and the crowd. He said: If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
I have not departed from the command of his lips. I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
Also healed was Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna. There were many others, who supported them out of their private substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'
