Quotes About Commitment

And none of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Pray for us; we are convinced that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.

What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and your “No,” no, so that you will not fall under judgment.

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.