Quotes About Obedience

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.

But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!

Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”

But they dared to go up to the ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—

all that the LORD has commanded you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing through the generations to come—

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,

So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.