Quotes About Devotion

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ëWe will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.í Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.

Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.

You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

Inside the portico of the gateway were two tables on each side, on which the burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were to be slaughtered.

You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.

They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëOn the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.

Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.

When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate.

And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.

Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.í

They must not sell or exchange any of it, and they must not transfer this best part of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.