Bible Verses About Obedience & Surrender
Love for God shows itself in glad obedience and a life surrendered to his will. Not my will, but yours, be done. These verses call you to follow wherever he leads, trusting that his commands are good.
So, brothers and sisters, I appeal to you by the mercies of God: offer your bodies to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to him. That is your reasonable worship.
So place yourselves under God. Stand against the devil, and he will run from you.
If any of you planned to build a tower, would you not sit down first and add up the expense, to find out whether you could afford to finish it?
Then Jesus told his disciples, “Anyone who wishes to come after me must say no to self, pick up their cross, and follow me.
Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants.
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.
“Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Yet let your will be done, not mine.”
Jesus answered him, “’Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.’
And now, Israel, what is it that the LORD your God asks of you? Just this: that you fear the LORD your God, follow all his ways and love him, and that you serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Be people who carry out the word, not just people who hear it. Otherwise you are fooling yourselves.