it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”

Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord.

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

For the one who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by people.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function,

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.

We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.