Quotes about Commitment
Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
- Judges 7:3
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
- Judges 11:31
and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.
- Judges 17:11
Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
- Judges 20:8
What should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
- Judges 21:7
Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
- Ruth 1:7
and said, “Surely we will return with you to your people.”
- Ruth 1:10
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
- Ruth 1:14
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
- Ruth 1:15
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
- Ruth 1:16
Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
- Ruth 1:17
When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
- Ruth 1:18