Deuteronomy 4:35

35To you it was shown, athat you might know that the Lord is God; bthere is no other besides him.

2 Kings 17:41

41 cSo these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s childrenas their fathers did, so they do to this day.

Zephaniah 1:5

5 dthose who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
ethose who bow down and swear to the Lord
and yet swear by fMilcom,

Matthew 6:24

24 g“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and hmoney.
Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions


Luke 6:13

13And when day came, jhe called his disciples kand lchose from them twelve, whom he named mapostles:

Romans 6:16-22

16Do you not know that if you present yourselves nto anyone as obedient slaves,
For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface (twice in this verse and verse 19; also once in verses 17, 20)
you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17But pthanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the qstandard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, rhaving been set free from sin, shave become slaves of righteousness. 19 tI am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ujust as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members vas slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 wFor when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 xBut what fruit were you getting at that time from the things yof which you are now ashamed? zFor the end of those things is death. 22But now that you aahave been set free from sin and abhave become slaves of God, acthe fruit you get leads to sanctification and adits end, eternal life.
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