Quotes About Commitment

Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice of the LORD our God!”

For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ëPray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.í

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ëWe will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.í Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëNone of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.í”

Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighborís wife.

I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the kingís service.

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the kingís food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.

I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.

“And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, stood up to strengthen and protect him.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ëI will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.í

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.