Obedience to God

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• John 14:15

  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.

• James 1:22

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

• Isaiah 1:19

  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

• Luke 6:46

  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

• John 14:23

  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

• Romans 6:16

  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

• Hebrews 13:17

  Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

• Philippians 2:8

  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

• Romans 5:19

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

• James 4:7

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

• Matthew 7:21

  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

• Luke 11:28

  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

• John 14:21

  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

• Exodus 19:5

  Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

• 2 John 1:6

  And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

• Acts 5:29

  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

• Hebrews 5:8

  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

• Romans 8:28

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

• Titus 2:9

  Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

• Romans 13:1

  Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

• Romans 12:1

  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

• Romans 1:5

  By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

• 1 John 5:3

  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

• Hebrews 12:9

  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

• Ephesians 5:21

  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

• Hebrews 5:9

  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

• 1 Peter 2:18

  Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

• Acts 5:32

  And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

• Deuteronomy 28:1

  And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

• Luke 5:1–39

  And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. …

• Ephesians 6:1–3

  Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

• James 2:24

  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

• Joshua 5:6

  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

• Ephesians 6:1

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

• Proverbs 6:20

  My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

• 1 Peter 5:5

  Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.