Quotes About Commitment

But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

Although Potipharís wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”

I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.

But we answered, ëWe cannot go down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.í

Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boyís safety to my father, saying, ëIf I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.í

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ëLet us go and sacrifice to the LORD.í

Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to worship the LORD until we arrive.”

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

You shall not commit adultery.

If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

But if the servant declares, ëI love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,í

then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.