Only one God fits this description. He alone lives, and therefore, he alone is “real,” the sense of alēthinos, true. In greater detail, what it meant to turn to God receives a twofold definition. First, it means to serve him, with the infinitive expressing the goal of salvation and the tense (present) making the point that our goal in being saved is to serve him always. The word means “to serve as a slave” (douleuō, see also Rom. 12:11; 14:18; 16:18; Eph. 6:7; Phil. 2:22; Col. 3:24; for Paul’s use
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