39 Bible Verses about Serving

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Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you 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 you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Job 36:11

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that they who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Luke 10:40

But Martha was cumbered about with much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, do you 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 you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

2 Samuel 22:44

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.

Luke 22:27

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

Psalm 18:43

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve 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, Fear not: you have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

Romans 14:18

For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

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Not Serving God

Nehemiah 9:35

For they have not served you in their kingdom, or in your great goodness that you gave them, or in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

Penalties For Serving Other Gods

Deuteronomy 11:28

And a curse, if you will not obey 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 you have not known.

Serving Asherah

1 Kings 11:5

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

Serving Groups

Exodus 14:12

Is not this the word that we did tell you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Serving Individuals

Genesis 27:40

And by your sword shall you live, and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.

Serving Kings

1 Samuel 8:11-16

And he said, This will be the manner 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 chariots.

Serving One's Own Gods

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the River in former times, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

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