Quotes about Obligation
But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 23:22
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
- Judges 11:31
Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
- 1 Samuel 1:21
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
- 1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
- 1 Samuel 8:17
“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.”
- 2 Samuel 3:13
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
- 1 Kings 12:4
So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.
- 2 Kings 23:35
Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.
- Nehemiah 5:4
We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
- Nehemiah 10:32
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
- Job 41:4
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
- Ecclesiastes 5:4