Quotes About Devotion

So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

You shall have no other gods before Me.

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.