Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast
“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have co
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the E
God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel
You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when the
and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul acco
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despi
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sid
Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Begin building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bri
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LO
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among t
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselve
Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new sp
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seek
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purificat
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.