44 Bible Verses about obeying

But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'

" 'But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands,

"{And then} if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God {by diligently observing} all of his commandments and his statutes that I [am] commanding you {today}, then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you:

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

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and {will take up residence with him}.

and the curse, if you [do] not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but [rather] you turn 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, in the sincerity of your heart, as to 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 keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not [with] groaning, for this [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 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 listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Then Samuel said, "Is there [as much] delight for Yahweh in burnt offerings and sacrifices as [there is] in {obeying} Yahweh? Look! {To obey} [is] better than sacrifice; to give heed than the fat of rams.

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

But he said, "On the contrary, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and follow [it]!"

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

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

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I [am] commanding you {today},

like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become [when you] do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.

But Peter and the apostles answered [and] said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men!

However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

And 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 you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies.

The one who says "I have come to know him," and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person.

But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

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

I hurry and do not delay to heed your commands.

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe [and] do all [of] this commandment {before} Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'

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

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."

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

with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

he humbled himself [by] becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.

" 'If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them,

[He will do this] if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law [and] if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self.