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 a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;
But ye say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me;
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise, therefore, and build ye 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.
David's Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. Now if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD there.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing earnest 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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
O my soul, thou hast said to the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
He that sacrificeth to any god, save to 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 to him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou 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 free-man: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
For I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of 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 ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied in them.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called to 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 towards him. In this thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
That ye may walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
For the love of Christ constraineth 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 to him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say to you, that ye who have followed me in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our spirit
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
For, 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 ye 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 ye 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
According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to 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 how great things he hath done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Loving God
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to 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
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give to me.
Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:
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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
So likewise, whoever he is of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our redemption
What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye 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 ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » The call of God
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you into his kingdom and glory.
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Persevering
And Jesus said to him, No man having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
That he would grant to 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 saith 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 gavest me to do.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Doing all to God's glory
Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatever ye 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 to 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 of Jesus Christ. read more.
But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father, he hath 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 ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye 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 not henceforth live to themselves, but to 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 not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Epaphroditus
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.
Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Paul
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Want of, condemned
So then, because thou art luke-warm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit thee 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 how great things he hath done for you.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our preservation
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary 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 ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Being Devoted to God » Grounded upon » Our creation
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Being Devoted to God » Should be exhibited in » Bearing the cross
And when he had called the people to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever 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 to him with his disciples also, he said to them, Whoever 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 to him of their substance.
the Burnt offering » Illustrative of » Being Devoted to God
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Decision » Being Devoted to God » Exemplified » Joshua
And if it seemeth evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.