Strong's Greek · G1398
δουλεύω
douleúō
be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice)
Definition
to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary)
Derivation
from G1401 (δοῦλος);
Appears 25 times in Scripture
“For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.”
“I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.”
“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 despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
““We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?””
“No servant can serve two masters. 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 both God and money.””
“‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’”
“We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.”
“Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).