Quotes about Obedience
Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
— Jeremiah 13:6
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
— Jeremiah 13:8
For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
— Jeremiah 13:11
Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.
— Jeremiah 13:15
But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
— Jeremiah 16:16
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 17:19
Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.
— Jeremiah 17:20
This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
— Jeremiah 17:21
You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
— Jeremiah 17:22
Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
— Jeremiah 17:23
If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
— Jeremiah 17:24
But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
— Jeremiah 17:27