that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,

Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Blessed are those slaves whom their master finds alert when he returns! I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, have them take their place at the table, and will come and wait on them!

Won’t the master instead say to him, ‘Get my dinner ready, and make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink. Then you may eat and drink’?

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Then some soldiers also asked him, “And as for us – what should we do?” He told them, “Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay.”