44 Bible Verses about obeying

But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

"But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

"But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.

But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

"If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.