Quotes about Neglect

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

And do not neglect the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

For the Israelites and the Levites are to bring the contributions of grain, new wine, and oil to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are kept and where the ministering priests, the gatekeepers, and the singers stay. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.”

I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.