Quotes About Commitment

If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.

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 I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight like I am beating the air.

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?

But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

My purpose in writing you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting menís trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

As Godís fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive Godís grace in vain.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

I do not say this to condemn you. I have said before that you so occupy our hearts that we live and die together with you.

For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,

they earnestly pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

And not only did they do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, because it was the will of God.

So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.