Quotes About Faith

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

Therefore you must say to them, ëThis is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

How can you say, ëWe are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,í when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.