If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
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