Quotes About Obligation

Jack knew that what Lloyd meant was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

To "love thy neighbor as thyself" is a far greater and more complicated obligation, requiring a positive effort to seek the good of others, often in secret, sometimes at great cost, and always without reward. Its most powerful

If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he makes, according to the law of his separation.”

But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORDís offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

And if a woman in her fatherís house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

If a woman in her husbandís house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the LORD.

And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:

“Caesarís,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesarís, and to God what is Godís.”

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is Corbaní (that is, a gift devoted to God),

Then Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesarís, and to God what is Godís.” And they marveled at Him.

Still another said, ëI have married a wife, so I cannot come.í

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.