20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God
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And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction.
Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering,
But you say, Whoever says to his father or mother what you might be profited with by me is a gift,
But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his.
rejoice in the hope, be patient in affliction, be persevering in prayer,
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,
And I exhort you, brothers, know the family of Stephanas, for it is a first fruit of Achaia, and they devoted themselves to serving the saints;
whose end is destruction, whose God is their stomach, and their glory in their shame; who regard earthly things.
And Jesus answered and said to him, It is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him alone shall you serve.
For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant.
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge;
But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is a corban, which is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me, [he shall be free];
Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.
God is faithful by whom you are called into the society of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ constrains us, judging this, 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 to him, If you will be perfect, go and sell your property, and give to the poor, and you shall have a treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.
And Jesus said to them, I tell you truly, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, shall yourselves also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel; and whoever has left brothers or sisters, or a father or mother, or children, or lands or houses, for my name's sake, shall receive many times as much, and inherit eternal life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the 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.
I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;
Being Devoted to God » Should be » In life and death
according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
for if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether therefore we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Serving God
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And he answered and 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 bodies, to obey its desires, neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our substance
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Unreserved
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the first, and love the other, or he will adhere to the first, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
So, therefore, no one of you can be my disciple who does not forsake all that he has.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Walking worthy of God
and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
But Jesus said, No man putting his hand on the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
to grant us without fear, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, to serve him
Being Devoted to God » Christ, an example of
Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Timothy
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I may be refreshed when I know your affairs. For I have no one like minded who really will care for your interests; for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his tried virtue, that as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Living to Christ
and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The death of Christ
and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
Because therefore you are warm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew 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
I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And calling the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wishes to follow 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 calling the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever wishes to follow after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Being Devoted to God » A characteristic of saints
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joanna, &c
and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susannah, and many others, who served them with their property.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;