Quotes about Decrees

In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

and Jason has welcomed them into his home. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, named Jesus!”

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving.