Quotes about Obedience
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
— Jeremiah 7:23
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:7
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
— Jeremiah 9:25
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
— Jeremiah 11:1
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
— Jeremiah 11:7
Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
— Jeremiah 11:8
They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
— Jeremiah 11:10
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
— Jeremiah 11:21
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 12:17
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
— Jeremiah 13:1
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
— Jeremiah 13:2
So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.
— Jeremiah 13:5