13 Bible Verses about Obeying God

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

And we are witness to the truth of this, and so is the Holy Spirit--the gift of God to those who obey him."

To this Peter and the Apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men.

And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.

(Here there is need for endurance on the part of Christ's People--those who lay to heart the commands of God and the Faith of Jesus.)

By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.

The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.