What Does the Bible Say About Commitment?

The Bible addresses commitment across both Old and New Testaments. These verses are organized by biblical era — from the patriarchs to the apostles — letting Scripture speak for itself.

8 verses·5 eras·2 promises

Conquest (~1400 BC)

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."

Judges (~1200 BC)

Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
Ruth 1:16· RuthPromise
where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."
Ruth 1:17· RuthPromise

Life of Jesus (~30 AD)

"He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters.
"He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn't gather with me, scatters.
But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

United Kingdom (~1000 BC)

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
Psalms 31:5· DavidPrayer

patriarchs

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24· Narrator

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