Bible Verses AboutDevotion
Bible verses about Devotion
Devotion, a cornerstone of a vibrant faith, is more than just ritual; it's a heartfelt commitment to God. Exploring devotion through scripture reveals its transformative power, shaping our character and deepening our connection with the divine. These verses illuminate the path to a life consecrated to His will, urging us beyond mere obligation into a joyful surrender. Understanding Biblical devotion ignites a passion for righteousness, fueling our service and enriching our understanding of God's profound love. Let these passages inspire you to cultivate a devotion that resonates with authenticity and unwavering faith, drawing you closer to the heart of God.
Most Helpful Verses
Begin with these carefully selected verses that address this topic most directly.
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.
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
Scripture Passages
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
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.
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and twelve.
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the Lord of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the Lord’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.
And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.
And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
All the days that he separateth himself unto the Lord he shall come at no dead body.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.
The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever; as the Lord hath commanded.
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the Lord, even a tenth part of the tithe.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.
Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him.
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.
And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar.
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord.
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the Lord: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar.
And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:
And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Reflection
Contemplating Devotion
The Bible's verses on devotion paint a clear picture: a life dedicated to God is a life rich in purpose, strength, and unwavering peace. From wholehearted service to fervent prayer and steadfast obedience, these scriptures highlight that devotion is not merely an emotion, but a conscious choice to prioritize God in every aspect of our lives. As we meditate on these powerful words, let us examine our own hearts and actions. Are we truly devoted, or are we only giving God our leftovers? Cultivating devotion requires consistent effort, intentional reflection, and a willingness to surrender our own desires for His will. Embrace the call to a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God, and experience the transformative power of a life lived in true devotion. Let the verses shared here serve as both a guide and an inspiration on your journey of faith.
May these verses about devotion bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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