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Bible Verses About Obedience

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

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But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

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Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

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And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

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Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

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Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

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And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

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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.

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Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

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For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

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If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God:

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Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.

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And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

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When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

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Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

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Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

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For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

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If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

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And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

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To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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

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As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

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And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

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

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Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.

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Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

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That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

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And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

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

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

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And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

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