137 occurrences

'Obey' in the Bible

His mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey me and go get them for me.”

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Verse ConceptsPalacesThronePromotionRelative GreatnessRespect For People

Then Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHesitationMoses, Life OfUnbelief, As Response To GodGod AppearingNot Believing People

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahBlessings, To IsraelCautionGod As EnemyEnemies

He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey everything that the Lord has commanded.”

Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingResponseReading The ScripturesWe ObeyTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiReading The Bible

“But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

Verse Conceptsdiscipline, divineSevenfolddisobedience

“If you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of HostilitySevenfold

“And if in spite of this you do not obey Me but act with hostility toward Me,

none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,

Verse ConceptsGod, As SaviorTen TimesTesting GodNot Believing Signs

“When you sin unintentionally and do not obey all these commands that the Lord spoke to Moses—

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commandsignorance

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryHeart, HumanHuman DesiresEvil Eyes

This way you will remember and obey all My commands and be holy to your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying Godmindfulness

Confer some of your authority on him so that the entire Israelite community will obey him.

Verse ConceptsHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority Of DisciplesPaying Attention To Peopleinvesting

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.

Verse ConceptsDistressReturning To GodEnd Of Days

Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.’

Verse ConceptsMediatorTheocracySpeaking The Word God GivesListening To God

Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsObeying God

When the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, He said, ‘Go up and possess the land I have given you’; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You did not believe or obey Him.

Verse ConceptsTrust, Lack OfRebellion Against God, Shown InUnbelief, Examples OfDoubting God

“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul,

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole HeartednessObedience To GodThe Need To Love God

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

Verse ConceptsBlessedBlessing And CurseObedienceBlessings From GodObeying Godcommandmentsobeying

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.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysDisobedience, To GodUnknown GodsThe Curse Of The LawDifferent GodsPenalties For Serving Other GodsObeying Goddisobediencecursesobeying

Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPersonal GoodObeying God

This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all His commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’

Verse ConceptsAlcoholDishonouring ParentsChildren, UngratefulObstinate IndividualsAccused Of Drunkennessrebelliondrunkards

Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey Him.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, in OTHe Is Our God

Obey the Lord your God and follow His commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodKeep The Commandments!Obeying God

“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all His commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtCommitment, to GodWarfare, Examples OfOvertakingGod Lifting PeopleObedienceObeying God

The Lord will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth InGod's WaysOrthodoxy, In OtPeople Of God, In OtA Holy NationWalking In God's WayKeep The Commandments!

“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name—Yahweh, your God—

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory Ofethics, personalGlory Of GodGod's Glory RevealedAweHis Name Is The LordGod Is To Be FearedKeep The Commandments!

Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsFew People

and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am giving you today,

Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsChildren, Duties OfEarnestnessReturning To GodWhole HeartednessBlessings Of ObedienceObeying God

Then you will again obey Him and follow all His commands I am giving you today.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

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.

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawWhole HeartednessKeep The Commandments!ObedienceObeying Godcommandmentsobeying

love the Lord your God, obey Him, and remain faithful to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land the Lord swore to give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodGod, Living And Self sustainingGod, The CreatorGod Of The FathersOrigins Of Spiritual LifeLove Towards God, Results InAncestorsLife Through Keeping The LawThe Need To Love God

We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. And may the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouObeying People

Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRebellion Against God, Shown InBraveryStrength Of PeopleBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage

For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness 40 years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodProperty, LandThe Number FortyDisobedience, To GodExclusionThe Promised Land40 To 50 YearsDeath As PunishmentMilk And Honeyconsequencesmovementwandering

So the people said to Joshua, “We will worship the Lord our God and obey Him.”

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCommitment, to GodAtonement, in OT

I said to you: I am Yahweh your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites whose land you live in. But you did not obey Me.’”

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCommitment, to GodClaimsThe Lord Is God

Hand over the perverted men in Gibeah so we can put them to death and eradicate evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not obey their fellow Israelites.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualHanding Over PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin

If you fear the Lord, worship and obey Him, and if you don’t rebel against the Lord’s command, then both you and the king who rules over you will follow the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReverence To GodFollowing GodFear God!Obeying God

So why didn’t you obey the Lord? Why did you rush on the plunder and do what was evil in the Lord’s sight?”

Verse ConceptsPlundering

“But I did obey the Lord!” Saul answered. “I went on the mission the Lord gave me: I brought back Agag, king of Amalek, and I completely destroyed the Amalekites.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationExterminationWe Obey

You did not obey the Lord and did not carry out His burning anger against Amalek; therefore the Lord has done this to you today.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, Examples OfApostasy Of SaulGod Angry With The Nations

Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;as soon as they hear, they obey me.

Verse ConceptsForeignersPretendingObeying People

So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’

Verse ConceptsAssentingKings SummoningPeople Bound By Oaths

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceCommands, in OTBuildingKingsGod Will Be With YouKeep The Commandments!The Dynasty Of David

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying: If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, bring me the heads of your master’s sons at this time tomorrow at Jezreel. All 70 of the king’s sons were being cared for by the city’s prominent men.

Verse ConceptsSeventies

because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord their God but violated His covenant—all He had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.

Verse ConceptsListeningMoses, Significance OfServanthood, In Life Of BelieversBreaking The Covenant

No one is to enter the Lord’s temple but the priests and those Levites who serve; they may enter because they are holy, but all the people are to obey the requirement of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For God

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Verse ConceptsDoctrine, CommunicatedIntelligenceStudyRenewed HeartMan's PurposesStudying The LawTeaching The Way Of GodStudyingstatues

You warned them to turn back to Your law,but they acted arrogantlyand would not obey Your commands.They sinned against Your ordinances,which a person will live by if he does them.They stubbornly resisted,stiffened their necks, and would not obey.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestorsdid not obey Your lawor listen to Your commandsand warnings You gave them.

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfBreaking God's Law

The rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with their wives, sons, and daughters, everyone who is able to understand and who has separated themselves from the surrounding peoples to obey the law of God—

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil PeopleSingersPeople With KnowledgeTemple Assistants

join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the law of God given through God’s servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commands, ordinances, and statutes of Yahweh our Lord.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodPromises, HumanServants Of The LordThe Curse Of The LawLater Covenants With GodPeople Bound By OathsThe Law Given Through Moses

The king asked, “According to the law, what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey King Ahasuerus’s command that was delivered by the eunuchs?”

But if they do not obey,they will cross the river of deathand die without knowledge.

Verse ConceptsRepentance, Importance OfDangers Of Ignorance

Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;as soon as they hear, they obey me.

Verse ConceptsForeignersObedience To GodPretendingObeying People

“But My people did not listen to Me;Israel did not obey Me.

Verse ConceptsIndifferenceListeningReprobates

All this happenedso that they might keep His statutesand obey His instructions.Hallelujah!

Verse ConceptsPraise The Lord!Keep The Commandments!

Give me life in accordance with Your faithful love,and I will obey the decree You have spoken.

Verse ConceptsLovingkindnessRevivingWanting To Keep The Commandmentsrevivalpreservation

פ PeYour decrees are wonderful;therefore I obey them.

Verse ConceptsI Keep The Commandments

I obey Your precepts and decrees,for all my ways are before You.

Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod, All knowingI Keep The Commandments

I didn’t obey my teachersor listen closely to my mentors.

Verse ConceptsSelf CondemnationTeachers

My son, obey my words,and treasure my commands.

Verse ConceptsYoung MenKeeping Man's Word

They are a rebellious people,deceptive children,children who do not want to obey the Lord’s instruction.

Verse ConceptsChildren, attitudes towardsSin, Nature OfBible, Names OfRefusing To HearLying And Deceitrebellion

Though seeing many things, you do not obey.Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”

Verse ConceptsIndifferenceRefusing To HearBeing Without UnderstandingListening To Godattention

Who among you will pay attention to this?Let him listen and obey in the future.

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.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, and graceEarsWalkingObedience To GodI Will Be Their GodObedienceObeying Godobeying

The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, To GodForsaking God's ThingsBreaking God's Law

You must tell them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let a curse be on the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodThe Curse Of The LawBreaking The Covenant

which I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace.’ I declared: ‘Obey Me, and do everything that I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God,’

Verse ConceptsFurnacesFreedom, Acts Of In OtIronI Will Be Their GodPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.

Verse ConceptsCovenant Made At Sinai

For I strongly warned your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt until today, warning them time and time again, ‘Obey My voice.’

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineThose Who Rose EarlyPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Yet they would not obey or pay attention; each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant, because they had not done what I commanded them to do.”

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartStubbornness, Consequences OfStubbornnessRefusing To Hear

They have returned to the sins of their ancestors who refused to obey My words and have followed other gods to worship them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah broke My covenant I made with their ancestors.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodRefusing To HearDifferent GodsReturning to the oldBreaking The Covenant

Just as underwear clings to one’s waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“so that they might be My people for My fame, praise, and glory, but they would not obey.

Verse ConceptsListeningWaistsPraise, Reasons ForClinging To GodThings Stuck TogetherRefusing To HearElect

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that this house will become a ruin.”

Verse ConceptsRuinsRefusing To Hear

“‘But you would not obey Me’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘in order that you might provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands and bring disaster on yourselves.’

Verse ConceptsRefusing To Hear

They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or live according to Your instructions. They failed to perform all You commanded them to do, and so You have brought all this disaster on them.

At the end of seven years, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must send him out free from you. But your ancestors did not obey Me or pay any attention.

Verse ConceptsListeningSabbatical YearYearsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsSeven YearsPeople Freeing Slavesfreeliberation

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
πειθαρχέω 
Peitharcheo 
Usage: 4

יקּהה 
Yiqqahah 
Usage: 2

משׁמעת 
Mishma`ath 
Usage: 4

שׁמע 
Shama` 
Usage: 1158

שׁמע 
Sh@ma` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 9

ἀπειθέω 
Apeitheo 
Usage: 16

πείθω 
Peitho 
Usage: 52

ὑπακοή 
Hupakoe 
Usage: 15

ὑπακούω 
Hupakouo 
obey , be obedient to , hearken
Usage: 20

ὑπήκοος 
Hupekoos 
Usage: 3

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