Quotes about Pledge
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
— Genesis 38:18
A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
— Myles Munroe
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
— JI Packer
And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
— Genesis 21:24
Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,
— Nehemiah 10:19
to a virgin pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
— Luke 1:27
“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
Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,
— Nehemiah 10:26
Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
— Nehemiah 10:17
And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,
— Numbers 30:3
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
— Ezekiel 17:18
So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
— Matthew 23:20