Bible Verses About Serving God
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for serving god, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,037 votes, led by 1 Samuel 12:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Serving God
1 Samuel 12:24653 votes
Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Colossians 3:23-24536 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
1 Corinthians 15:58421 votes
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Matthew 6:24387 votes
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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Romans 12:1356 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Mark 10:45333 votes
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Deuteronomy 13:4275 votes
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
John 12:26256 votes
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Malachi 3:18220 votes
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Galatians 5:13220 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Colossians 3:23214 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
1 Peter 4:10211 votes
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Romans 12:11208 votes
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Hebrews 6:10198 votes
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Colossians 3:17196 votes
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
2 Corinthians 9:7195 votes
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Joshua 22:5186 votes
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Mark 9:35186 votes
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
1 Chronicles 28:9182 votes
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
1 Peter 2:9176 votes
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Joshua 24:15165 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Ephesians 6:7163 votes
With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Matthew 20:28160 votes
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
1 Timothy 4:12156 votes
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Hebrews 9:14148 votes
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
What does the Bible say about serving god?
Readers most often cite 1 Samuel 12:24 on the subject of serving god. Across 12,037 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Matthew 6:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.