Important Quotations Explained
1. I
will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you,
and kings shall come from you. I will establish my covenant between
me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations,
for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring
after you. And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you,
the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for
a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.
(Genesis
17:
6–
8)
2. Hear,
O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the
Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with
all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today
in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them
when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and
when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem
on your forehead.
(Deuteronomy
6:
4–
8)
3. Has
the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and
sacrifices,
as in obedience to the voice
of the Lord?
Surely, to obey is better than
sacrifice,
and to heed than the fat of rams.
. . .
Because you have rejected the word
of the Lord,
he has also rejected you from
being king.
(
1 Samuel
15:
22–
23)
4. If
I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?
Why
have you made me your target?
Why have I become
a burden to you?
(Job
7:
20)
5. For
everything there is a season, and a
time
for every matter under heaven:
a time to
be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant,
and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a
time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time
to break down, and a time to build up;
a
time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time
to mourn, and a time to dance. . . .
(Ecclesiastes
3:
1–
4)
