13 Bible Verses About Obedience

Samuel said, “Is the LORD as pleased with burnt offerings and sacrifices as with obeying the voice of the LORD? See, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to pay heed is better than the fat of rams.

Be people who carry out the word, not just people who hear it. Otherwise you are fooling yourselves.

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our dwelling place with them.

For to love God is to keep his commandments, and his commandments are no burden,

So love the LORD your God, and always keep his requirements, his statutes, his rulings, and his commandments.

Keep this book of the law always on your lips, and reflect on it by day and by night, so that you take care to do all that is written in it. Then you will bring your ways to a good end, and then you will act wisely and succeed.

Why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord’ when you do not do what I tell you?

You are my friends if you carry out what I command you.

Peter and the other apostles replied, “It is God we must obey rather than people.

But God be thanked! Once you were slaves of sin, yet you gave wholehearted obedience to the pattern of teaching into whose care you were handed.

Live as children who obey. Do not let yourselves be shaped by the desires you used to follow back when you did not know any better.

For what I command you today is that you love the LORD your God, walk in his ways, and keep his commandments, statutes and rulings. Then you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to take possession of.