Lexicon :: Strong's G1398 - douleuō

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

“But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends.

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

“We are descendants[fn] of Abraham,” they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’? ”

“I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, God said. After this, they will come out and worship me in this place.

“serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and during the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

For we know that our old self[fn] was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin[fn] might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

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

not from works but from the one who calls ​— ​she was told, The older will serve the younger.

Do not lack diligence in zeal; be fervent in the Spirit;[fn] serve the Lord.

Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and receives human approval.

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites.[fn] They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things[fn] that by nature are not gods.

Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.

For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity[fn] for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to people,

But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father.

knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ.

for they themselves report[fn] what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Let those who have believing masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but serve them even better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.[fn]

Teach and encourage these things.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.