Quotes About Relationship

I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Then I said, ëHow I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!í I thought you would call Me ëFatherí and never turn away from following Me.

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ëObey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.í

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

For just as a loincloth clings to a manís waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heartís delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ëKnow the LORD,í because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

They will be My people, and I will be their God.