δουλεύω
Definition and meaning
douleuo (doul-yoo'-o) v. 1. to be a slave to 2. to be enslaved 3. (figuratively) to be subservient to {literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary} [from G1401] KJV: be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice) Root(s): G1401
Tagged KJV passages
23 matching verses - 27.0 tagged occurrences
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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.
Matched English: serve, serveLuke 15:29And 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:
Matched English: serveLuke 16:13No 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.
Matched English: serve, serveJohn 8:33They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Matched English: were, bondageActs 7:7And 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.
Matched English: bondageActs 20:19Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
Matched English: ServingRomans 6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Matched English: should, serveRomans 7:6But 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.
Matched English: serveRomans 7:25I 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 9:12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Matched English: serveRomans 12:11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Matched English: servingRomans 14:18For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Matched English: servethRomans 16:18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Matched English: serveGalatians 4:8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Matched English: serviceGalatians 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Matched English: bondageGalatians 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Matched English: bondageGalatians 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Matched English: serveEphesians 6:7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
Matched English: servicePhilippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
Matched English: servedColossians 3:24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Matched English: serve1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Matched English: serve1 Timothy 6:2And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
Matched English: serviceTitus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Matched English: serving