Quotes about Obedience
With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.
— Ezra 7:17
You and your brothers may do whatever seems best with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God.
— Ezra 7:18
Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?
— Ezra 7:23
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
— Ezra 7:26
And now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments
— Ezra 9:10
Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
— Ezra 10:8
Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”
— Ezra 10:11
And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!
— Ezra 10:12
Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
— Ezra 10:40
Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
— Ezra 10:42
We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
— Nehemiah 1:7
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
— Nehemiah 1:8