39 Bible Verses about Serving
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If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond 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 listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Do you not know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
Jesus answered and said to him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
For those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
So the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Is not it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?'
Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you
of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
Topics on Serving
Animals Serving Human Needs
Genesis 3:21The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Heaven And Serving God
Matthew 6:10Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Not Serving God
Nehemiah 9:35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.
Penalties For Serving Other Gods
Deuteronomy 11:28and the curse, if you shall not listen to 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 who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Serving God
Matthew 6:24"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Serving Groups
Exodus 14:12Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave 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 27:40By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
Serving Jesus
Colossians 3:24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Serving Kings
1 Samuel 8:11-16He said, "This will be the way 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 24:2Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
Serving People
1 Peter 4:10As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
Serving The Church
Romans 12:7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;