Quotes About Community

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.”

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.

At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.í”

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?

The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Go and tell them: ëReturn to your tents.í

But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.