44 Bible Verses about obeying

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

“But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands—

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.

“If you love Me, you will keep My commands.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

And this is love: that we walk according to His commands. This is the command as you have heard it from the beginning: you must walk in love.

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.

For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions.”

Then Samuel said:

Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the Lord?

Look: to obey is better than sacrifice,
to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

He said, “Even more, those who hear the word of God and keep it are blessed!”

If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.

I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?

there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you today,

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good things of the land.

Now when we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we also guide the whole animal.

The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” yet doesn"t keep His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

But whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God is perfected. This is how we know we are in Him:

This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.

I hurried, not hesitating
to keep Your commands.

But He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

Righteousness will be ours if we are careful to follow every one of these commands 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 the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

Help me understand Your instruction,
and I will obey it
and follow it with all my heart.

taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—
even to death on a cross.

“If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,

when you obey the Lord your God by keeping His commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to Him with all your heart and all your soul.