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Bible Verses About Obligation

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

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When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

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For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

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So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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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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Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

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Bear ye one anotherโ€™s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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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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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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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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If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

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And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

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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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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 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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This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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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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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

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For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

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Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?

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

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Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

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For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

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And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lordโ€™s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

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On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify 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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Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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

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Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

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It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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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.

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Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

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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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And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesarโ€™s, and unto God the things which be Godโ€™s.

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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

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Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

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