8 Bible Verses about Obedience To God

Now that you know these things, happy are you if you do them.

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."

But he who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of Freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice--that man will be blessed in what he does.

It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.

Son though he was, he learned obedience from his sufferings;

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

Let the spirit of Christ Jesus be yours also. Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to, But impoverished himself by taking the nature of a servant and becoming like men; read more.
He appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death--to death on a cross!

"Let it be so for the present," Jesus answered, "since it is fitting for us thus to satisfy every claim of religion." Upon this, John consented.

Through him we received the gift of the Apostolic office, to win submission to the Faith among all nations for the glory of his Name.

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

Still, it may be said, every one did not give heed to the Good News. No, for Isaiah asks--'Lord, who has believed our teaching?' And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the Message of Christ.

We are engaged in confuting arguments and pulling down every barrier raised against the knowledge of God. We are taking captive every hostile thought, to bring it into submission to the Christ,

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

But Peter and John replied: "Whether it is right, in the sight of God, to listen to you rather than to him--

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

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

Every one has heard of your ready obedience. It is true that I am very happy about you, but I want you to be well versed in all that is good, and innocent of all that is bad.

But afterwards, having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another road.

When Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him.

But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that God exists, and that he rewards those who seek for him.

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

Let every one obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.

For, as through the disobedience of the one man the whole race was rendered sinful, so, too, through the obedience of the one, the whole race will be rendered righteous.

and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure.

After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;