ˈwɜːʃɪp
To show reverence and adoration for a deity; religious devotion and honor.
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew 15:8-9, KJV
And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
Luke 24:52-53, KJV
Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
John 9:31, KJV
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Acts 7:42-43, KJV
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Hebrews 10:1-4, KJV
He who worships grandeur is the slave of pride; he knows not that greatness consists in meekness.
Saadi, Bustan
If thou makest choice to worship the Creator, Thou wilt be a chieftain in the kingdom of fortune.
Saadi, Bustan
O Sadi! look not for aid from any man. God is the giver, and He alone. If thou worship Him, the door of His mercy sufficeth thee; if He drive thee away, no one will ease thee. If He make thee to wear a crown, raise thy head; if not, bow thy head in despair.
Saadi, Bustan
Thus we debase The nature of our seats and make the rabble Call our cares fears; This double worship, Where one part does disdain with cause, the other Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom, Cannot conclude but by the yea and no
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 3, Scene 1
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God
Religious commandment
worshipe /worshipe/
Middle English, Britain
weorþscipe /weorthscipe/
Old English, Britain