Quotes about Responsibility

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

“Why are you doing these things?” Eli said to his sons. “I hear about your wicked deeds from all these people.

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” So the man hurried over and reported to Eli.

When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.

Now listen to them, but you must solemnly warn them and show them the manner of the king who will reign over them.”

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.