verb 1. to perform duties or services for (another person or an organization).
Life Questions
What is it to serve? Who do you serve in this life? Who serves you? Is serving something you aspire to?
As an important theme in scripture serving and having a servant's heart is an important prompt for all mankind. Here are some encouraging key verses to stir and direct our service from God's word.
It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.
But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.
They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.
Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
“Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night?
Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.
Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
“You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty?
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
Romans 14:17,18 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.
I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.