31 Bible Verses about Serving God

No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,

Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord,

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

and how I served the Lord most humbly and with tears, through all the trials that I encountered because of the plots of the Jews.

If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' "

Thank God! it is done through Jesus Christ our Lord! So mentally I am a slave to God's law, but physically to the law of sin.

No servant can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money!"

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

Is that appealing to men's weaknesses, or to God? Is that trying to suit men? If I were still doing that, I would be no slave of Christ.

or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching,

for you know that it is from him that you are to receive that inheritance which is to be your reward. Think of Christ as the master you are working for.

And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'

For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!

in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,

So the Twelve called in the whole body of disciples and said to them, "It is not desirable that we should give up preaching the word of God to keep accounts.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.

In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

Are not the angels all spirits in service, whom he sends on his errands for the good of those who are destined to possess salvation?

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.