So then, if you will worship me, all this will be yours.”

So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

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

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.

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

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you.