Quotes About Loyalty

You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

But if the servant declares, ëI love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,í

If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëEach of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.í”

You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

You must not take your wifeís sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any manís wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.

that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I will speak whatever the LORD says.

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,

the gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the other),

you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

But if your servant says to you, ëI do not want to leave you,í because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,

then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.