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Bible Verses About Disobedience

This collection includes 50 passages about Disobedience. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

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She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.

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But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

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Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:

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And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

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Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

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But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.

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But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

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And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

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And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

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So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill.

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Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

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If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

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Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

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Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

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Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

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Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

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If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

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And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

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Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

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And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

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If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

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And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

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But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

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And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

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They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

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And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

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And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

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For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

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Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

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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?

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But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God,

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But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

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If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

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Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

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And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

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