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To Serve God Alone without Ascribing
Equals to Him

Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and
serve Him only. (Luke, 4:8)

Jesus said to him, "... Worship the Lord your God, and serve
Him only." (Matthew, 4:10)

... My dear friends, flee from idolatry. (1 Corinthians, 10:14)

For they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us.
They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living
and true God... (1 Thessalonians, 1:9-10)

And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they
worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and
animals and reptiles [surely God is beyond that]... They ex-
changed the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served
created things rather than the Creator [surely God is beyond
that]—Who is forever praised... (Romans, 1:23-25)

... If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that
darkness! 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 de-
spise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
(Matthew, 6:23-24)

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