Quotes about Commitment
I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
— Genesis 43:9
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22
Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
— Genesis 44:32
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
— Exodus 2:21
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
— Exodus 4:25
And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
— Exodus 19:8
You shall not commit adultery.
— Exodus 20:14
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
— Exodus 21:5
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
— Exodus 24:3
Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
— Leviticus 5:4
You must remain at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have been commanded.”
— Leviticus 8:35
You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.
— Leviticus 22:23