39 Bible Verses about Serving

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Joshua 24:15

And if it seems evil unto 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 river or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Job 36:11

If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in goodness and their years in delight.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do ye not know that those who work with sacred things live of the things of the sanctuary? and those who serve at the altar partake of the altar?

Luke 10:40

But Martha was cumbered about in much serving and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she help me.

Romans 9:12

it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

2 Samuel 22:44

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of peoples; thou hast kept me to be head of the Gentiles; peoples whom I did not know have served me.

Luke 22:27

For who is greater, he that sits at the table or he that serves? Is it not he that sits at the table? But I am among you as he that serves.

Psalm 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the Gentiles: a people whom I did not know served me.

Jeremiah 27:17

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon and live: why should this city be laid waste?

1 Samuel 12:20

And Samuel said unto the people, Do not fear. Ye have done all this wickedness, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

Philippians 1:12

But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel,

Romans 14:18

For he that in these things serves the Christ is well pleasing unto God and approved of men.

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Not Serving God

Nehemiah 9:35

For they did not serve thee in their kingdom and in thy great goodness that thou didst give them and in the large and fat land which thou didst deliver before them; neither did they turn from their wicked works.

Penalties For Serving Other Gods

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the curse if ye will not hear the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

Serving Asherah

1 Kings 11:5

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

Serving Christ

Romans 14:18

For he that in these things serves the Christ is well pleasing unto God and approved of men.

Serving Groups

Exodus 14:12

Is this not what we told thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.

Serving Individuals

Genesis 27:40

and by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother; yet there shall be a time when thou shalt have dominion, and thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Serving Kings

1 Samuel 8:11-16

And he said, This will be the right of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and some shall run before his chariot.

Serving One's Own Gods

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Long ago your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river, even Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor, and they served other gods.

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