39 Bible Verses about Serving

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Job 36:11

If they hearken and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Know ye not that those being employed at the sacred things eat from the temple, and those who serve at the altar are partakers at the altar?

Luke 10:40

But Martha was encumbered about much serving. And having stood near, she said, Lord, do thou not care that my sister left me behind to serve alone? Speak to her therefore that she may help me.

Romans 9:12

it was said to her, The older will serve the younger.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because thou served not LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things,

2 Samuel 22:44

Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Luke 22:27

For who ranks higher, he who sits dining, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits dining? But I am in the midst of you as he who serves.

Psalm 18:43

Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Jeremiah 27:17

Hearken not to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

1 Samuel 12:20

And Samuel said to the people, Fear not. Ye have indeed done all this evil, yet turn not aside from following LORD, but serve LORD with all your heart.

Romans 14:18

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

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Not Serving God

Nehemiah 9:35

For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gave them, and in the large and fat land which thou gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

Penalties For Serving Other Gods

Deuteronomy 11:28

and the curse, if ye shall not hearken to the commandments of 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 Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Serving Groups

Exodus 14:12

Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Serving Individuals

Genesis 27:40

And by thy sword thou shall live, and thou shall serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shall break loose, that thou shall shake his yoke from off thy neck.

Serving Kings

1 Samuel 8:11-16

And he said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them to him for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and they shall run before his chariots.

Serving One's Own Gods

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

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