39 Bible Verses about Serving
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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.
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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?
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get you behind me, Satan: for it is written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.
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.
If any man serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serves me, him will my Father honor.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the innocent.
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reasonable that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
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.
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.
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.
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city be laid waste?
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;
But I wish you to understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have served rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
Of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Topics on Serving
Animals Serving Human Needs
Genesis 3:21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Heaven And Serving God
Matthew 6:10Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Not Serving God
Nehemiah 9:35For 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 11:28And 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 11:5For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Serving Christ
Romans 14:18For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Serving God
Matthew 6:24No 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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Serving Groups
Exodus 14:12Is 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 27:40And 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 Jesus
Colossians 3:24Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ.
Serving Kings
1 Samuel 8:11-16And 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 24:2And 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.
Serving People
1 Peter 4:10As every man has received a gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Serving The Church
Romans 12:7Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;