Quotes About Faithfulness

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

ëCurse Meroz,í says the angel of the LORD. ëBitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.í

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.

Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—

if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.

And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.

But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her fatherís house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,

Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ëStay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.í”

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlonís widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ëThe iniquity of Eliís house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.í”

So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.