Quotes About Commitment

I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.

And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.

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

For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is complete.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose—at any time, and not only when I am with you.

Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.