δουλεύω (δοῦλος), [in LXX for עָבַד, as Gen.14:4, exc. Da TH Dan.7:14, 27 (פְּלַח), Isa.56:6 (שָׁרַת pi.)* ;] to be a slave, be subject to, serve: absol., Rom.7:6, Gal.4:25, 1Ti.6:2; with dative of person(s), Mat.6:24, Luk.15:29 16:13, Rom.9:12" (LXX) ; of nations, Jhn.8:33, Act.7:7" (LXX) ; θεῷ, τ. κυρίῳ, Mat.6:24, Luk.16:13, Act.20:19, Rom.12:11 (R, mg., καιρῷ) Rom.16:18, Eph.6:7, Col.3:24, 1Th.1:9; τ. Χριστῷ, Rom.14:18, Col.3:24; νόμῳ θεοῦ, Rom.7:25; τ. θεοῖς, Gal.4:8; τ. καιρῷ, Rom.12:11 (R, mg. for κυρίῳ); ἀλλήλοις, Gal.5:13; σὺν ἐμοί Php.2:22; τ. ἁμαρτίᾳ, Rom.6:6; νόμῳ ἁμαρτίας, Rom.7:25; ἐπιθυμίαις κ. ἡδοναις, Tit.3:3; τ. κοιλία, Rom.16:18; μαμωνᾷ, Mat.6:24, Luk.16:13; τ. στοιχείοις τ, κόσμου, Gal.4:9 (Cremer, 217).† (AS)
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G1398 — δουλεύω
douleuō · be a slave · Greek
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Matthew 6:24 · δουλεύειν· · δουλεύεινNo man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.Luke 15:29 · δουλεύωBut he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, and I never transgressed a commandment of thine; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:Luke 16:13 · δουλεύειν· · δουλεύεινNo servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.John 8:33 · δεδουλεύκαμενThey answered unto him, We are Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?Acts 7:7 · δουλεύσουσιν,And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.Acts 20:19 · δουλεύωνserving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;Romans 6:6 · δουλεύεινknowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;Romans 7:6 · δουλεύεινBut now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.Romans 7:25 · δουλεύωI thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.Romans 9:12 · δουλεύσειit was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.Romans 12:11 · δουλεύοντες,in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;Romans 14:18 · δουλεύωνFor he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men.Romans 16:18 · δουλεύουσινFor they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.Galatians 4:8 · ἐδουλεύσατεHowbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:Galatians 4:9 · δουλεύεινbut now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?Galatians 4:25 · δουλεύειNow this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.Galatians 5:13 · δουλεύετεFor ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.Ephesians 6:7 · δουλεύοντεςwith good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:Philippians 2:22 · ἐδούλευσενBut ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.Colossians 3:24 · δουλεύετε.knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.1 Thessalonians 1:9 · δουλεύεινFor they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,1 Timothy 6:2 · δουλευέτωσαν,And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the rather, because they that partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. These things teach and exhort.Titus 3:3 · δουλεύοντεςFor we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.