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100 Bible Verses about Obedience To God

John 14:15 ESV / 2,781 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 1,938 helpful votes

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

James 1:22 ESV / 1,900 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 1,684 helpful votes

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Luke 6:46 ESV / 1,592 helpful votes

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

John 14:23 ESV / 1,555 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 1,536 helpful votes

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 1,455 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 1,417 helpful votes

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Romans 5:19 ESV / 1,408 helpful votes

For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

James 4:7 ESV / 1,346 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 1,330 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 11:28 ESV / 1,328 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

John 14:21 ESV / 1,277 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 1,218 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 1,190 helpful votes

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 1,188 helpful votes

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

2 John 1:6 ESV / 1,053 helpful votes

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.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 1,037 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 1,029 helpful votes

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 1,005 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Titus 2:9 ESV / 1,002 helpful votes

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,002 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 978 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 973 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 1:5 ESV / 969 helpful votes

Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 862 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 861 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Hebrews 12:9 ESV / 861 helpful votes

Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

1 Peter 2:18 ESV / 850 helpful votes

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 844 helpful votes

And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

Acts 5:32 ESV / 842 helpful votes

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

Luke 5:1-39 ESV / 780 helpful votes

On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” ...

James 2:24 ESV / 776 helpful votes

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 776 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 773 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Joshua 5:6 ESV / 757 helpful votes

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 747 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 716 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 693 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Romans 13:5 ESV / 689 helpful votes

Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 683 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 681 helpful votes

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Romans 15:32 ESV / 675 helpful votes

So that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Ephesians 6:5-9 ESV / 667 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

Matthew 7:14 ESV / 660 helpful votes

For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 656 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 15:14 ESV / 649 helpful votes

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 640 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 630 helpful votes

For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.

John 14:31 ESV / 615 helpful votes

But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

Deuteronomy 11:1 ESV / 603 helpful votes

“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 590 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 588 helpful votes

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 8:14 ESV / 584 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

John 15:16 ESV / 579 helpful votes

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 574 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...

Psalm 119:60 ESV / 565 helpful votes

I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.

Romans 12:11 ESV / 557 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 555 helpful votes

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 550 helpful votes

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

Exodus 23:22 ESV / 546 helpful votes

“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Job 36:11 ESV / 545 helpful votes

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

Acts 2:38 ESV / 534 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 533 helpful votes

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 531 helpful votes

Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Philippians 2:11 ESV / 527 helpful votes

And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 510 helpful votes

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

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 499 helpful votes

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 498 helpful votes

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Luke 9:23 ESV / 498 helpful votes

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 ESV / 498 helpful votes

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

James 2:26 ESV / 494 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 493 helpful votes

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

James 1:22-25 ESV / 492 helpful votes

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

James 2:17 ESV / 491 helpful votes

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Deuteronomy 28:2 ESV / 487 helpful votes

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 483 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 481 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

John 15:10 ESV / 474 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 471 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 469 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

John 14:6 ESV / 463 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 John 3:24 ESV / 461 helpful votes

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

1 Samuel 15:22-23 ESV / 452 helpful votes

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 446 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 3:22 ESV / 443 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 432 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 414 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 411 helpful votes

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

John 13:17 ESV / 411 helpful votes

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 408 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Matthew 19:17 ESV / 402 helpful votes

And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

Romans 6:17 ESV / 401 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 400 helpful votes

In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Deuteronomy 13:4 ESV / 399 helpful votes

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 396 helpful votes

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 393 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Hebrews 12:5-6 ESV / 389 helpful votes

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

1 Kings 2:3 ESV / 383 helpful votes

And keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,

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