Devotion And Loyalty To God In The Old Testament

This article covers Devotion And Loyalty To God In The Old Testament.

Devotion And Loyalty To God mean your faith in Him. Faith is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as confidence or trust in a particular system of religious belief. Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as simply belief without evidence.

The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God. The second part of the Christian Bible is the New Testament.

Fear the Lord your God and serve Him. To Him you will cleave and take your oaths in His name. (Deuteronomy, 10:20)

If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and cleave to Him… There will be no man be able to stand before you… (Deuteronomy, 11:20-25)

For I delight in loving kindness, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings. (Hosea, 6:6)

It is the Lord your God you must follow, and Him you must fear. Keep His commands and obey Him; serve Him and cleave to Him. (Deuteronomy, 13:4)

Love the Lord, all His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful… Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. (Psalms, 31:23-24)

The Bible

Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to Your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to You and righteous and upright in heart…” (1 Kings, 3:6)

… to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to obey His commands, to cleave unto Him and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul. (Joshua, 22:5)

He cleaved to the Lord and did not cease to follow Him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses. (2 King, 18:6)

But all of you who kept faith with the Lord your God are still alive today. See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. Observe them carefully… (Deuteronomy, 4:4-6)

But cleave to the Lord your God, as you have been till this day. (Joshua, 23:8)

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. (Lamentations, 3:40)

Faithfullness

Because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My requirements, My commands, My decrees and My laws. (Genesis, 26:5)

He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. It is not by strength that one prevails. (1 Samuel, 2:9)

To the faithful You show Yourself faithful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. (2 Samuel, 22:26)

“O Lord… You Who keep Your covenant of love with Your servants who continue wholeheartedly in Your way.” (1 Kings, 8:23)

… May Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, may Your saints rejoice in Your goodness. (2 Chronicles, 6:41)

Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalms, 97:10)

Now fear the Lord and serve Him with all faithfulness. (Joshua, 24:14)