Quotes about Obligation
Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- 1 Corinthians 9:16
If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
- 1 Corinthians 9:17
Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
- Galatians 5:3
Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
- Colossians 4:1
For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10
That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
- Hebrews 5:3
Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people—that is, from their brothers—though they too are descended from Abraham.
- Hebrews 7:5
saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”
- Hebrews 9:20
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation.
- Paulo Coelho
To realise one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
- Paulo Coelho
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
There is a huge difference between being bound in relationship by the joy of love, and being tied up in obligation and guilt.
- Chuck Smith