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  • Luke 14:26-27
    "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
     
  • John 14:15
    "If you love Me, keep My commandments.
     
  • Romans 12:1-2
    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
     
  • Matthew 22:36-38
    "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the first and great commandment.
     
  • Luke 9:59-62
    Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God." And another also said, "Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house." But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
     
  • Romans 8:28
    And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
     
  • Philippians 2:5-8
    Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
     
  • 1 John 2:15-17
    Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
     
  • 1 John 5:3
    For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
     
  • John 8:29
    And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."
     
  • 1 John 2:3-6
    Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
     
  • Revelation 2:2-3
    "I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name's sake and have not become weary.
     
  • Exodus 13:12
    that you shall set apart to the LORD all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the LORD’s.
     
  • Exodus 22:20
    “He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
     
  • Leviticus 1:3
    "If his offering is a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it of his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the LORD.
     
  • Leviticus 1:5-10
    He shall kill the bull before the LORD; and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around on the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay the wood in order on the fire. Then the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire upon the altar; but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD. "If his offering is of the flocks—of the sheep or of the goats—as a burnt sacrifice, he shall bring a male without blemish.
     
  • Leviticus 22:2
    "Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me: I am the LORD.
     
  • Leviticus 27:21
    but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.
     
  • Leviticus 27:28
    ‘Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the LORD.
     
  • Joshua 6:19
    But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the LORD; they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.”
     
  • Joshua 10:40
    So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
     
  • 1 Kings 8:61
    Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day.”
     
  • 1 Kings 15:14
    But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was loyal to the LORD all his days.
     
  • 2 Kings 10:16
    Then he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.” So they had him ride in his chariot.
     
  • 2 Kings 20:3
    “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
     
  • 2 Kings 23:11
    Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
     
  • 1 Chronicles 22:19
    Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God. Therefore arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the LORD.”
     
  • 1 Chronicles 28:9
    "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
     
  • 1 Chronicles 29:3
    Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver:
     
  • 1 Chronicles 29:18
    O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of Your people, and fix their heart toward You.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 17:6
    And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; moreover he removed the high places and wooden images from Judah.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 31:4
    Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to contribute support for the priests and the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 31:21
    And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prospered.
     
  • Ezra 7:10
    For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
     
  • Job 15:4
    Yes, you cast off fear,
    And restrain prayer before God.
     
  • Psalm 18:1
    To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: I will love You, O LORD, my strength.

     
  • Psalm 63:11
    But the king shall rejoice in God;
    Everyone who swears by Him shall glory;
    But the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

     
  • Psalm 86:2
    Preserve my life, for I am holy;
    You are my God;
    Save Your servant who trusts in You!

     
  • Psalm 86:11
    Teach me Your way, O LORD;
    I will walk in Your truth;
    Unite my heart to fear Your name.

     
  • Isaiah 38:3
    and said, “Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
     
  • Jeremiah 12:3
    But You, O LORD, know me;
    You have seen me,
    And You have tested my heart toward You.
    Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
    And prepare them for the day of slaughter.

     
  • Jeremiah 30:21
    Their nobles shall be from among them,
    And their governor shall come from their midst;
    Then I will cause him to draw near,
    And he shall approach Me;
    For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?' says the LORD.

     
  • Hosea 10:12
    Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    Reap in mercy;
    Break up your fallow ground,
    For it is time to seek the LORD,
    Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

     
  • Micah 4:13
    “ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
    For I will make your horn iron,
    And I will make your hooves bronze;
    You shall beat in pieces many peoples;
    I will consecrate their gain to the LORD,
    And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.”
     
  • 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.
     
  • Matthew 6:33
    But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
     
  • Mark 7:11
    But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban"' (that is, a gift to God),
     
  • Luke 16:13
    "No servant 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."
     
  • John 4:34
    Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
     
  • John 21:15-16
    So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?' He said to Him, 'Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.' He said to him, 'Feed My lambs.' He said to him again a second time, 'Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?' He said to Him, 'Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.' He said to him, 'Tend My sheep.'
     
  • Acts 1:14
    These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
     
  • Acts 2:42
    And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
     
  • Acts 5:14
    And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
     
  • Acts 11:23
    When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.
     
  • Acts 21:20
    And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;
     
  • Romans 12:11-12
    not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
     
  • 1 Corinthians 7:34-35
    There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 16:24
    My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
     
  • Galatians 2:20
    I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
     
  • Ephesians 5:18
    And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
     
  • Philippians 3:8
    Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
     
  • Philippians 3:13-14
    Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
     
  • Colossians 3:22
    Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.
     
  • Colossians 4:17
    And say to Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.”
     
  • 1 Timothy 2:10
    but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.
     
  • 1 Timothy 5:5
    Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
     
  • 1 Timothy 5:10
    well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
     
  • 2 Timothy 3:12
    Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
     
  • Titus 2:14
    who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
     
  • Titus 3:8
    This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.
     
  • Hebrews 5:7
    who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
     
  • Hebrews 6:1
    Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
     
  • Hebrews 10:35
    Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
     
  • 2 Peter 1:6
    to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
     
  • Genesis 4:4
    Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
     
  • Exodus 20:3
    "You shall have no other gods before Me.

     
  • Leviticus 1:14-15
    "And if the burnt sacrifice of his offering to the LORD is of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or young pigeons. The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood shall be drained out at the side of the altar.
     
  • Leviticus 1:17
    Then he shall split it at its wings, but shall not divide it completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

     
  • Deuteronomy 26:18
    Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments,
     
  • Psalm 69:9
    Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up,
    And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

     
  • Isaiah 53:7
    He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
    Yet He opened not His mouth;
    He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
    And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    So He opened not His mouth.

     
  • Isaiah 55:6-7
    Seek the LORD while He may be found,
    Call upon Him while He is near.
    Let the wicked forsake his way,
    And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
    Let him return to the LORD,
    And He will have mercy on him;
    And to our God,
    For He will abundantly pardon.

     
  • Isaiah 66:2
    For all those things My hand has made,
    And all those things exist,"
    Says the LORD.
    "But on this one will I look:
    On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
    And who trembles at My word.

     
  • Jeremiah 2:2
    "Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD:
    "I remember you,
    The kindness of your youth,
    The love of your betrothal,
    When you went after Me in the wilderness,
    In a land not sown.

     
  • Matthew 6:21
    For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
     
  • Matthew 24:45-47
    "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
     
  • Luke 2:49
    And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”
     
  • Luke 14:31-33
    Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
     
  • John 2:17
    Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”
     
  • John 15:10
    If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
     
  • John 17:4
    I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.
     
  • Romans 6:16
    Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
     
  • Romans 7:22
    For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 6:20
    For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
     


Related Scriptures

  • Luke 14:28-30
    For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, "This man began to build and was not able to finish"?
     
  • Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
     
  • Deuteronomy 13:17
    So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,
     
  • Joshua 7:1
    But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things, for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed things; so the anger of the LORD burned against the children of Israel.
     
  • Joshua 7:15
    Then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
     
  • 1 Samuel 15:15
    And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
     
  • 1 Samuel 15:21
    But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”
     
  • 1 Kings 11:4
    For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.
     
  • 1 Chronicles 2:7
    The son of Carmi was Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 32:32
    Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, indeed they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
     
  • 2 Chronicles 35:26
    Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and his goodness, according to what was written in the Law of the LORD,
     
  • Matthew 15:5
    But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, 'Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God"
     
  • Matthew 25:6-13
    "And at midnight a cry was heard: "Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!" Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, saying, "No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us!" But he answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you." "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
     
  • Acts 17:23
    for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
    TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
     
  • Acts 19:35
    And when the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said: “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
     
  • Romans 13:6
    For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 5:20
    Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 7:11
    For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
     
  • 2 Corinthians 13:5
    Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
     
  • Hebrews 5:8
    though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
     
  • 1 John 4:20
    If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
     
  • Revelation 2:4-5
    Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
     
  • Revelation 3:15
    "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
     
  • Exodus 32:1
    Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."
     
  • Exodus 34:5-8
    Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
     
  • Psalm 34:18
    The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
    And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
     
  • Matthew 24:12
    And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
     
  • Mark 7:7
    And in vain they worship Me,
    Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'
     
  • John 6:29
    Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
     
  • John 13:35
    By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."