Serving God As A Single Person

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Honour widows that are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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.

Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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?

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.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, — read the full passage →

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

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.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; — read the full passage →

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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.

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

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.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.