Bible Cross References
serve
Matthew 6:24
"You cannot be a slave of two masters; you will hate one and love the other; you will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
John 12:26
Whoever wants to serve me must follow me, so that my servant will be with me where I am. And my Father will honor anyone who serves me.
Galatians 1:10
Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Philippians 2:21
Everyone else is concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ.
Colossians 3:24
Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward what he has kept for his people. For Christ is the real Master you serve.
James 1:1
From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.
Jude 1:1
From Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James--- To those who have been called by God, who live in the love of God the Father and the protection of Jesus Christ:
Revelation 1:1
This book is the record of the events that Jesus Christ revealed. God gave him this revelation in order to show to his servants what must happen very soon. Christ made these things known to his servant John by sending his angel to him,
but
1 Samuel 2:12-17
12
The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the LORD
13
or to the regulations concerning what the priests could demand from the people. Instead, when someone was offering a sacrifice, the priest's servant would come with a three-pronged fork. While the meat was still cooking,
14
he would stick the fork into the cooking pot, and whatever the fork brought out belonged to the priest. All the Israelites who came to Shiloh to offer sacrifices were treated like this.
15
In addition, even before the fat was taken off and burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the one offering the sacrifice, "Give me some meat for the priest to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, only raw meat."
16
If the person answered, "Let us do what is right and burn the fat first; then take what you want," the priest's servant would say, "No! Give it to me now! If you don't, I will have to take it by force!"
17
This sin of the sons of Eli was extremely serious in the LORD's sight, because they treated the offerings to the LORD with such disrespect.
1 Samuel 2:29-17
Isaiah 56:10-12
10
He says, "All the leaders, who are supposed to warn my people, are blind! They know nothing. They are like watch dogs that don't bark---they only lie around and dream. How they love to sleep!
11
They are like greedy dogs that never get enough. These leaders have no understanding. They each do as they please and seek their own advantage.
12
'Let's get some wine,' these drunkards say, 'and drink all we can hold! Tomorrow will be even better than today!' "
Ezekiel 13:19
You dishonor me in front of my people in order to get a few handfuls of barley and a few pieces of bread. You kill people who don't deserve to die, and you keep people alive who don't deserve to live. So you tell lies to my people, and they believe you."
Hosea 4:8-11
8
You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.
9
You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do.
10
You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods."
11
The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!
Micah 3:5
My people are deceived by prophets who promise peace to those who pay them, but threaten war for those who don't. To these prophets the LORD says,
Malachi 1:10
The LORD Almighty says, "I wish one of you would close the Temple doors so as to prevent you from lighting useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you; I will not accept the offerings you bring me.
Matthew 24:48-51
48
But if he is a bad servant, he will tell himself that his master will not come back for a long time,
49
and he will begin to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
50
Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.
51
The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the hypocrites. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.
Philippians 3:19
They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.
1 Timothy 6:5
and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. They think that religion is a way to become rich.
2 Peter 2:10-15
10
especially those who follow their filthy bodily lusts and despise God's authority. These false teachers are bold and arrogant, and show no respect for the glorious beings above; instead, they insult them.
11
Even the angels, who are so much stronger and mightier than these false teachers, do not accuse them with insults in the presence of the Lord.
12
But these people act by instinct, like wild animals born to be captured and killed; they attack with insults anything they do not understand. They will be destroyed like wild animals,
13
and they will be paid with suffering for the suffering they have caused. Pleasure for them is to do anything in broad daylight that will satisfy their bodily appetites; they are a shame and a disgrace as they join you in your meals, all the while enjoying their deceitful ways!
14
They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!
15
They have left the straight path and have lost their way; they have followed the path taken by Balaam son of Beor, who loved the money he would get for doing wrong
Jude 1:12
With their shameless carousing they are like dirty spots in your fellowship meals. They take care only of themselves. They are like clouds carried along by the wind, but bringing no rain. They are like trees that bear no fruit, even in autumn, trees that have been pulled up by the roots and are completely dead.
by
2 Chronicles 18:5
So Ahab called in the prophets, about four hundred of them, and asked them, "Should I go and attack Ramoth, or not?" "Attack it," they answered. "God will give you victory."
2 Chronicles 18:12-17
12
Meanwhile, the official who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, "All the other prophets have prophesied success for the king, and you had better do the same."
13
But Micaiah answered, "By the living LORD I will say what my God tells me to!"
14
When he appeared before King Ahab, the king asked him, "Micaiah, should King Jehoshaphat and I go and attack Ramoth, or not?" "Attack!" Micaiah answered. "Of course you'll win. The LORD will give you victory."
15
But Ahab replied, "When you speak to me in the name of the LORD, tell the truth! How many times do I have to tell you that?"
16
Micaiah answered, "I can see the army of Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These men have no leader; let them go home in peace.' "
17
Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "I told you that he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad!"
Isaiah 30:10
They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.
Isaiah 30:11
Get out of our way and stop blocking our path. We don't want to hear about your holy God of Israel."
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people.
Jeremiah 8:11
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Jeremiah 23:17
To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them."
Jeremiah 28:1-9
1
That same year, in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king, Hananiah son of Azzur, a prophet from the town of Gibeon, spoke to me in the Temple. In the presence of the priests and of the people he told me
2
that the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, had said: "I have broken the power of the king of Babylonia.
3
Within two years I will bring back to this place all the Temple treasures that King Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylonia.
4
I will also bring back the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, along with all of the people of Judah who went into exile in Babylonia. Yes, I will break the power of the king of Babylonia. I, the LORD, have spoken."
5
Then in the presence of the priests and of all the people who were standing in the Temple, I said to Hananiah,
6
"Wonderful! I hope the LORD will do this! I certainly hope he will make your prophecy come true and will bring back from Babylonia all the Temple treasures and all the people who were taken away as prisoners.
7
But listen to what I say to you and to the people.
8
The prophets who spoke long ago, before my time and yours, predicted that war, starvation, and disease would come to many nations and powerful kingdoms.
9
But a prophet who predicts peace can only be recognized as a prophet whom the LORD has truly sent when that prophet's predictions come true."
Jeremiah 28:15-17
15
Then I told Hananiah this, and added, "Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, and you are making these people believe a lie.
16
And so the LORD himself says that he is going to get rid of you. Before this year is over you will die because you have told the people to rebel against the LORD."
17
And Hananiah died in the seventh month of that same year.
Ezekiel 13:16
those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Micah 3:5
My people are deceived by prophets who promise peace to those who pay them, but threaten war for those who don't. To these prophets the LORD says,
Matthew 7:15
"Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves.
Matthew 24:11
Then many false prophets will appear and fool many people.
Matthew 24:24
For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God's chosen people, if possible.
2 Corinthians 2:17
We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2
We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13
Those men are not true apostles---they are false apostles, who lie about their work and disguise themselves to look like real apostles of Christ.
14
Well, no wonder! Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light!
15
So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve.
Colossians 2:4
I tell you, then, do not let anyone deceive you with false arguments, no matter how good they seem to be.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
1 Timothy 6:5
and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. They think that religion is a way to become rich.
2 Timothy 2:16-18
16
Keep away from profane and foolish discussions, which only drive people farther away from God.
17
Such teaching is like an open sore that eats away the flesh. Two men who have taught such things are Hymenaeus and Philetus.
18
They have left the way of truth and are upsetting the faith of some believers by saying that our resurrection has already taken place.
2 Timothy 3:2-6
2
People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious;
3
they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;
4
they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;
5
they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
6
Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
Titus 1:10-12
10
For there are many, especially the converts from Judaism, who rebel and deceive others with their nonsense.
11
It is necessary to stop their talk, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching what they should not, and all for the shameful purpose of making money.
12
It was a Cretan himself, one of their own prophets, who spoke the truth when he said, "Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, and lazy gluttons." For this reason you must rebuke them sharply, so that they may have a healthy faith
2 Peter 2:3
In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!
2 Peter 2:18-20
18
They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.
19
They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits---for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.
20
If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
1 John 4:1-3
1
My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere.
2
This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God.
3
But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.
Jude 1:16
These people are always grumbling and blaming others; they follow their own evil desires; they brag about themselves and flatter others in order to get their own way.
the simple
Romans 16:19
Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel, and for this reason I am happy about you. I want you to be wise about what is good, but innocent in what is evil.
Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect; it gives new strength. The commands of the LORD are trustworthy, giving wisdom to those who lack it.
Psalm 119:130
The explanation of your teachings gives light and brings wisdom to the ignorant.
Proverbs 8:5
Are you immature? Learn to be mature. Are you foolish? Learn to have sense.
Proverbs 14:15
A fool will believe anything; smart people watch their step.
Proverbs 22:3
Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.
2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ---in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.