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Top 12 most popular verses about obedience
"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth."
— Deuteronomy 28:1
"If you love me, keep my commands."
— John 14:15
"All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God."
— Deuteronomy 28:2
"However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you."
— Deuteronomy 28:15
"But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors."
— 1 Samuel 12:15
"But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.""
— 1 Samuel 15:22
"He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.""
— Luke 11:28
"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."
— John 14:21
"But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant."
— Leviticus 26:14-15
"Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.""
— John 14:23
"But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."
— James 1:25
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
— James 1:22
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"If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth."
— Deuteronomy 28:1
Context: Full obedience to God brings blessing and exaltation.
"But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.""
— 1 Samuel 15:22
Context: To obey is better than sacrifice - God values obedience.
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
— James 1:22
Context: Don't just listen to the word - do what it says.
"the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today."
— Deuteronomy 11:27
Context: Blessing comes from obeying God's commands.
"Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful."
— Joshua 1:8
Context: Meditate on God's word and obey it - then you will prosper.
"For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess."
— Deuteronomy 30:16
Context: Walk in obedience to God and He will bless you.
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"
— Luke 6:46
Context: If Jesus is Lord, we must do what He says.
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
— Matthew 7:21
Context: Enter the kingdom by doing the Father's will, not just saying "Lord."
"Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than human beings!""
— Acts 5:29
Context: We must obey God rather than human beings.
"Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind."
— Ecclesiastes 12:13
Context: Fear God and keep His commandments - this is our duty.
"Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you."
— Deuteronomy 6:17
Context: Be sure to keep the Lord's commands.
"Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him."
— Deuteronomy 8:6
Context: Walk in obedience to God and revere Him.
"But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."
— Joshua 22:5
Context: Love God, walk in obedience, keep His commands, hold fast to Him.
"We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands."
— 1 John 2:3
Context: We know God if we keep His commands.
"The one who keeps God's commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us."
— 1 John 3:24
Context: Keeping God's commands shows we live in Him.
"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city."
— Revelation 22:14
Context: Blessed are those who obey and have right to the tree of life.
"In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome."
— 1 John 5:3
Context: Love for God means keeping His commands - they're not burdensome.
Our obedience to God is the proof of our love for Him.
"If you love me, keep my commands."
— John 14:15
Context: If you love Jesus, keep His commands - obedience shows love.
"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."
— John 14:21
Context: Keeping Jesus' commands shows we love Him.
"Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.""
— John 14:23
Context: Anyone who loves Jesus will obey His teaching.
"If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in his love."
— John 15:10
Context: Keep Jesus' commands and remain in His love.
"But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him."
— 1 John 2:5
Context: Obeying God's word makes our love for Him complete.
"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love."
— 2 John 1:6
Context: Love means walking in obedience to God's commands.
"You are my friends if you do what I command."
— John 15:14
Context: We are Jesus' friends if we do what He commands.
"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
— Deuteronomy 10:12
Context: God asks us to fear Him, walk in obedience, love, and serve Him.
"Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always."
— Deuteronomy 11:1
Context: Love the Lord and keep His commands always.
"and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."
— Deuteronomy 30:20
Context: Love the Lord, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him.
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister."
— 1 John 4:20-21
Context: Loving God means obeying His command to love others.
"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."
— Romans 13:8
Context: Loving others fulfills the law - love leads to obedience.
"Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.""
— Matthew 22:37-40
Context: Love God and love your neighbor - all law hangs on these.
"For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself.""
— Galatians 5:14
Context: The entire law is fulfilled in loving your neighbor.
"Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
— Romans 13:10
Context: Love is the fulfillment of the law.
"And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!"
— Philippians 2:8
Context: Jesus' love for us led to obedience even to death.
"Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered."
— Hebrews 5:8
Context: Jesus learned obedience through suffering.
God blesses those who obey Him and walk in His commands.
"All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God."
— Deuteronomy 28:2
Context: Blessings come and accompany those who obey God.
"He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.""
— Luke 11:28
Context: Blessed are those who hear God's word and obey it.
"But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."
— James 1:25
Context: Those who look into God's law and do it are blessed.
"Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them."
— John 13:17
Context: You will be blessed if you do what you know.
"See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse— the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today."
— Deuteronomy 11:26-27
Context: God sets before us blessing for obedience.
"but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you."
— Jeremiah 7:23
Context: Obey God so that it may go well with you.
"and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go."
— 1 Kings 2:3
Context: Walk in obedience to prosper in all you do.
"Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart."
— Psalm 119:2
Context: Blessed are those who keep God's statutes.
"Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways."
— Proverbs 8:32
Context: Blessed are those who keep wisdom's ways.
"Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction."
— Proverbs 29:18
Context: Blessed is the one who heeds instruction and obeys.
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock."
— Matthew 7:24-25
Context: Obedience to Jesus' words builds life on solid foundation.
"If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land."
— Isaiah 1:19
Context: The willing and obedient eat the good things of the land.
"Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine."
— Exodus 19:5
Context: Obey God fully and you will be His treasured possession.
"So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever."
— 1 Chronicles 28:8
Context: Follow God's commands to possess the good land.
"All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant."
— Psalm 25:10
Context: God's ways are loving to those who keep His covenant.
"This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus."
— Revelation 14:12
Context: Keep God's commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
"But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts."
— Psalm 103:17-18
Context: God's love is with those who keep His covenant and obey.
Disobeying God leads to consequences, discipline, and separation.
"However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you."
— Deuteronomy 28:15
Context: Disobedience brings curses - failure to obey has consequences.
"But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors."
— 1 Samuel 12:15
Context: Rebelling against God's commands brings His opposition.
"But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant."
— Leviticus 26:14-15
Context: Rejecting God's commands violates His covenant.
"the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known."
— Deuteronomy 11:28
Context: The curse comes if you disobey and follow other gods.
"The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey."
— Joshua 5:6
Context: Israel wandered 40 years because they did not obey the Lord.
"But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD."
— Jeremiah 12:17
Context: Nations that do not listen will be destroyed.
"But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger."
— Romans 2:8
Context: Rejecting truth and disobeying brings wrath and anger.
"Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient."
— Ephesians 5:6
Context: God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
"For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him."
— Hebrews 2:2-3
Context: Every disobedience receives just punishment - don't ignore salvation.
"And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?"
— Hebrews 3:18
Context: The disobedient did not enter God's rest.
"Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience."
— Hebrews 4:11
Context: Make every effort to obey - don't follow disobedience's example.
"and, "A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for."
— 1 Peter 2:8
Context: People stumble because they disobey the message.
"For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous."
— Romans 5:19
Context: Through Adam's disobedience many were made sinners.
"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
— Matthew 7:26-27
Context: Not obeying Jesus' words builds life on sand - it will crash.
"Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded."
— Proverbs 13:13
Context: Scorning instruction brings payment - respecting commands brings reward.
"If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable."
— Proverbs 28:9
Context: Ignoring God's instruction makes even prayers detestable.
"and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it."
— Jeremiah 18:10
Context: Disobedience causes God to reconsider His intended good.
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