Bible verses about Obedience
Verses about the importance of obeying God and putting His word into practice.
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:15Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
John 14:21Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 14:23But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
1 Samuel 15:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
James 1:22But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:25Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
Luke 6:46But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Luke 11:28You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:14For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
1 John 5:3a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
Deuteronomy 11:27Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Psalms 119:34I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
Psalms 119:60I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
Psalms 119:101Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.
Hebrews 5:8And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
Hebrews 5:9As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
1 Peter 1:14Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:21By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
1 John 2:3Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:16