35 Powerful Bible Verses on Commitment
The dictionary defines commitment as the state or instance of being obligated or emotionally impelled.
Another one describes it as the willingness to give your time and energy to a job, activity, or something you believe in.
Commitment is therefore, your attachment to a worthy goal carried out with consistent actions.
It is the power that produces constancy and makes you stay through to your decisions even when inconvenient circumstances arise.
It keeps you on track and prevents you from falling or failing to reach your destination.
Commitment creates character and courage and it is a worthy virtue that is required to live a meaningful and successful life.
What does the Bible say about commitment?
The Bible teaches that our primary commitment is to God, and true commitment focuses on three essential areas of your life – the mind, heart and will.
God demands total commitment in serving Him as commanded in Matthew 22: 37- 38.
The following are other powerful Bible verses on commitment:
1. Psalm 37:5
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
2. Philippians
3:13 - 14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3. Proverbs
16:3
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith.
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working,
which worketh in me mightily.
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout
the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth
thou shalt have wars.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
11. Galatians
2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
21. 2
Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
24. Ruth 1:16
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
31. Proverbs
24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
32. Isaiah 50:7
For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
33. James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
34. 1 Kings
8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
35. 2 Timothy
1:14
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
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