'Obey' in the Bible

"But they -- our ancestors -- behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

I carefully obey your commands; I do not deviate from them.

Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; those who obey them receive a rich reward.

Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.

Rely on the Lord! Obey his commands! Then he will permit you to possess the land; you will see the demise of evil men.

Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance! Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey!

Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey his commands.

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

Yet they challenged and defied the sovereign God, and did not obey his commands.

I said, 'Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!

O Lord, teach me how you want me to live! Then I will obey your commands. Make me wholeheartedly committed to you!

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, 'These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.'

to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

Praise the Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!

so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the Lord!

They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the Lord.

To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.

(Alef) How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, who obey the law of the Lord.

I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.

I hope for your deliverance, O Lord, and I obey your commands.

May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

Obey the king's command, because you took an oath before God to be loyal to him.

If you have a willing attitude and obey, then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

For these are rebellious people -- they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord's law.

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

I also explicitly commanded them: "Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you."

Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. I said at that time, "Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement exactly as I commanded you. If you do, you will be my people and I will be your God.

For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

These wicked people refuse to obey what I have said. They follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts and pay allegiance to other gods by worshiping and serving them. So they will become just like these linen shorts which are good for nothing.

For,' I say, 'just as shorts cling tightly to a person's body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah tightly to me.' I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. But they would not obey me.

The Lord says, 'You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.

But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.'"

But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.

If you are careful to obey these commands, then the kings who follow in David's succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to come through the gates of this palace, as will their officials and their subjects.

But, if you do not obey these commands, I solemnly swear that this palace will become a pile of rubble. I, the Lord, affirm it!"

Tell them that the Lord says, 'You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.

"Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free." But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.

Then Jeremiah answered, "You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.

Now he has brought it about. The Lord has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the Lord and did not obey him.

We will obey what the Lord our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us."

This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the Lord by doing what he sent me to tell you.

So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord's command to stay in the land.

They went on to Egypt because they refused to obey the Lord, and came to Tahpanhes.

They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.

Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.

I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.

Then the kingdom, authority, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be delivered to the people of the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; all authorities will serve him and obey him.'

This is what the Lord says: "Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord's law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.

Does the family of Jacob say, 'The Lord's patience can't be exhausted -- he would never do such things'? To be sure, my commands bring a reward for those who obey them,

I will angrily seek vengeance on the nations that do not obey me."

"Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, 'The Lord who rules over all says, "Turn now from your evil wickedness,"' but they would by no means obey me," says the Lord.

Then those who are far away will come and build the temple of the Lord so that you may know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you. This will all come to pass if you completely obey the voice of the Lord your God."'"

Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.

"'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.

And the men were amazed and said, "What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!"

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him."

They were overwhelmed by fear and said to one another, "Who then is this? Even the wind and sea obey him!"

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were afraid and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

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

So the Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry tree, 'Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

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

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'

But Peter and John replied, "Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,

But Peter and the apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than people.

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

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

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

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

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

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

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

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