Quotes About Values

ëCursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

But the fig tree replied, ëShould I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?í

But his father and mother replied, “Canít you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.í

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.

The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.

He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,

who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many who are wicked.

Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.