Quotes About Devotion

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD

“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ëWhen you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAdminister true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ëLet us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.í

On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.

As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Jesus replied, “It is also written: ëDo not put the Lord your God to the test.í”

“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ëWorship the Lord your God and serve Him only.í”

Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ëDo not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.í

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.