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100 Bible Verses about Obedience

John 14:15 ESV / 1,291 helpful votes

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

Acts 5:29 ESV / 889 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 861 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:3 ESV / 543 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 533 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:46 ESV / 524 helpful votes

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

Luke 11:28 ESV / 461 helpful votes

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

Exodus 23:22 ESV / 453 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.

Psalm 119:30 ESV / 406 helpful votes

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.

1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 365 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.

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 356 helpful votes

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

John 14:23 ESV / 331 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.

John 14:31 ESV / 320 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.

James 1:22-25 ESV / 311 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.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 310 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.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 306 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?

Romans 5:19 ESV / 292 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.

Jeremiah 7:23 ESV / 283 helpful votes

But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 279 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 John 3:24 ESV / 274 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.

2 Kings 18:6 ESV / 273 helpful votes

For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.

John 8:51 ESV / 272 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Psalm 119:60 ESV / 272 helpful votes

I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.

James 1:22 ESV / 260 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 216 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.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 215 helpful votes

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

John 14:21 ESV / 213 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.”

Psalm 112:1 ESV / 212 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 143:10 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 198 helpful votes

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

John 15:14 ESV / 194 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:5 ESV / 189 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,

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 188 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 187 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.”

2 John 1:6 ESV / 184 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.

Titus 3:1 ESV / 171 helpful votes

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

John 15:10 ESV / 166 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.

Psalm 119:44 ESV / 162 helpful votes

I will keep your law continually, forever and ever,

Acts 5:32 ESV / 157 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 141 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.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 ESV / 133 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.

Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 129 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:59 ESV / 127 helpful votes

When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies;

2 Chronicles 31:21 ESV / 127 helpful votes

And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.

Romans 13:1 ESV / 123 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.

1 John 3:22 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 119 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 6:18 ESV / 118 helpful votes

And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers

Romans 12:1 ESV / 117 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.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 112 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Deuteronomy 4:39-40 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Psalm 119:31 ESV / 111 helpful votes

I cling to your testimonies, O Lord; let me not be put to shame!

James 2:17 ESV / 109 helpful votes

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

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Luke 6:46-48 ESV / 107 helpful votes

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

James 2:24 ESV / 106 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 103 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.

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 102 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.

Proverbs 19:16 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 98 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Leviticus 26:3-13 ESV / 98 helpful votes

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ...

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 97 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 97 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.

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 95 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.

John 13:17 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

James 2:26 ESV / 93 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:112 ESV / 92 helpful votes

I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

James 1:25 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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

Acts 2:38 ESV / 91 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.

Joshua 5:6 ESV / 89 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.

James 4:7 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:17 ESV / 87 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,

1 Samuel 15:22-23 ESV / 86 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.”

Matthew 9:9 ESV / 85 helpful votes

As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.

Psalm 99:7 ESV / 84 helpful votes

In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 83 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 82 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.

Psalm 119:100-102 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 81 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.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 80 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 28:1-68 ESV / 80 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. ...

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 78 helpful votes

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

1 John 2:17 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Philippians 2:12 ESV / 76 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 3:16-17 ESV / 76 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 75 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.

John 15:16 ESV / 74 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.

John 5:30 ESV / 73 helpful votes

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Matthew 19:17 ESV / 72 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.”

2 John 1:6-9 ESV / 71 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. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Romans 7:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes

So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Luke 1:6 ESV / 69 helpful votes

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Psalm 119:129 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.

Luke 8:15 ESV / 68 helpful votes

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Psalm 103:18 ESV / 68 helpful votes

To those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Joshua 22:2 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 68 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

John 8:31-32 ESV / 67 helpful votes

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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