Quotes about Standards

If we want to maintain personal intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ, it will mean refusing to do or even think certain things. And some things that are acceptable for others will become unacceptable for us.

We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve.

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

The total number of men in the camp of Dan is 157,600; they shall set out last, under their standards.”

So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

Differing weights and unequal measures—both are detestable to the LORD.

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.