Quotes about Obedience
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
— Jeremiah 25:8
If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
— Jeremiah 25:28
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
— Jeremiah 26:5
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
— Jeremiah 26:8
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
— Jeremiah 26:13
As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.
— Jeremiah 26:14
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
— Jeremiah 27:2
Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters:
— Jeremiah 27:4
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 27:11
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
— Jeremiah 27:12
Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
— Jeremiah 27:13
Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
— Jeremiah 27:17