Has God been putting it in your heart to serve Him? Are you trying to become the person God created you to be? One of the best ways to spend time with God is through service. By serving God you are able to fulfill God’s purpose for your life, put into practice what you have learned from God, spread the gospel, and demonstrate God’s love to others. If serving God is in your heart, let’s take a look at what the Bible says about serving. Below I’m sharing 30 encouraging bible verses about serving God.
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30 ENCOURAGING BIBLE VERSES ABOUT SERVING GOD
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1. When you serve God, do it with gladness.
Psalm 100:2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. (NKJV)
2. Any work you do for God is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (NKJV)
3. Do everything in the name of God.
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. (NKJV)
4. God doesn’t ignore or forget the work you do for him.
Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. (NKJV)
5. Use your liberty to serve God.
Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (NKJV)
6. Use your God-given gifts to serve God.
1 Peter 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. (NKJV)
7. Serve with the ability that God gives you and do everything for his glory.
1 Peter 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. (NKJV)
8. Jesus set the perfect example of service.
Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. (NKJV)
9. Serve to please God not men.
Ephesians 6:6-7 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. (NKJV)
10. Serve with your heart.
1 Samuel 12:20 Then Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. (NKJV)
11. Do everything for God.
Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. (NKJV)
12. You can not serve two masters.
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 loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (NKJV)
13. Serve God with diligence.
Romans 12:11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. (NKJV)
14. Your actions will show who you truly serve.
Malachi 3:18 Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him. (NKJV)
15. God is the only one who you should serve.
Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ (NKJV)
16. Serve God out of gratitude.
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you. (NKJV)
17. God rewards those who serve Him.
Colossians 3:24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. (NKJV)
18. Service comes with blessings.
Exodus 23:25 “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. (NKJV)
19. Life is better when you serve God.
Job 36:11 If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. (NKJV)
20. It is better to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ (NKJV)
21. Don’t let anything move you or stop you from serving God.
Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. (NKJV)
22. You are able to serve God because He is the one who works through you.
Colossians 1:29 To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily. (NKJV)
23. God has chosen and enabled you to serve Him.
1 Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. (NKJV)
24. God created you to walk in good works.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. (NKJV)
25. In due season you will reap from what you do for God.
Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (NKJV)
26. Even the little acts of service are known and rewarded by God.
Matthew 25:21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’ (NKJV)
27. In order to serve God, you must follow him and have communion with him.
John 12:26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. (NKJV)
28. Serve God in sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! (NKJV)
29. While God encourages you to serve Him, he doesn’t obligate you.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of 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.”
30. You can serve God with liberty and grace.
Romans 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. (NKJV)
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FINAL THOUGHTS
I hope you enjoyed reading 30 encouraging bible verses about serving God. Let me know in the comments below which bible verse about serving God you liked the most.
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Sending you blessings & love,
Gabby Abigail
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