20 Bible Verses about Being Devoted to God

"If you desire to be perfect," replied Jesus, "go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and come, follow me."

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that in the New Creation, when the Son of Man has taken His seat on His glorious throne, all of you who have followed me shall also sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel. And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

For it is with this end in view that the Good News was proclaimed even to some who were dead, that they may be judged, as all mankind will be judged, in the body, but may be living a godly life in the spirit.

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings; and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

"No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.

Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God? And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

Jesus answered him, "No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

To grant us to be rescued from the power of our foes And so render worship to Him free from fear,

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

But, if the Lord permits it, I hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be cheered by getting news of you. For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you. Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Accordingly, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, before long I will vomit you out of My mouth.

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, all of whom contributed to the support of Jesus and His Apostles.

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.