42 Bible Verses about devotion

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction.

My son, be careful {about anything beyond these things}. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study {is wearisome}.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

My God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look [in triumph] on my enemies.

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

because your loyal love [is] great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below.

O Yahweh, your loyal love [extends] into [the] heavens, your faithfulness unto [the] clouds.

The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.

Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning, for I trust you. Cause me to know the way that I should go, for I lift up my soul to you.

For I say, "Forever [your] loyal love is built up. [The] heavens you have established [with] your faithfulness in them."

For you, O Lord, [are] good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you.

By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song [is] with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

because your loyal love [is] great above [the] heavens, and your faithfulness [reaches] to [the] clouds.

Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love [is] good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,

For [as I] was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing [it], this I proclaim to you--

to declare in the morning your loyal love and your faithfulness in the night,

They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.

"Loyal love [should come] for the afflicted [from] his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.

and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your {presence} in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept [with] great weeping.

Because your loyal love [is] better than life, my lips will praise you.

Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.

Let your acts of loyal love also come to me, O Yahweh, your salvation according to your word.

Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, [that] I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.

To [him who] alone does great wonders, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

And [so] my faithfulness and my loyal love [will be] with him, and in my name his horn will rise up.

He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter.

Because your loyal love [is] high to [the] heavens, and your faithfulness to [the] clouds.

Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they [are] from of old.

May loyal love and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.

For Yahweh [is] good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness [is] {from generation to generation}.

Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to [the] upright of heart.

Who remembered us in our low estate, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

[The one who] gives food to all flesh, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

and showing loyal love to thousands [of generations] of those loving me and of those keeping my commandments.

And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.