Quotes about Commitment
Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
— Genesis 30:29
You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
— Genesis 31:6
I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flock.
— Genesis 31:38
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
— Genesis 34:8
We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
— Genesis 34:15
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
— Genesis 38:17
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
— Genesis 43:5
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