Quotes About Dedication

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.

It will be a special portion for them set apart from the land, a most holy portion adjacent to the territory of the Levites.

Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the other officials of the provinces to attend the dedication of the statue he had set up.

So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORDís temple was laid—consider carefully:

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 it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),

Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

saying, ëThis man could not finish what he started to build.í

At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Greet Mary, who has worked very hard for you.

Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, women who have worked hard in the Lord. Greet my beloved Persis, who has worked very hard in the Lord.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”

But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.

The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.