Strong's Greek · G1398
δουλεύω
douleúō
Definitionto be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary)
Derivationfrom G1401 (δοῦλος);
KJV usagebe in bondage, (do) serve(-ice)
Occurrences25 in the KJV · 23 verses
δουλεύω in Scripture
Matthew 6:24
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.
Luke 15:29
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
Luke 16:13
No servant 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.
John 8:33
They answered him, We be Abraham' s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Acts 7:7
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Romans 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 9:12
It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Romans 14:18
For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
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