Top 21 Bible Verses About Obeying God

Update on March 7, 2020 by Pastor Jack Wellman

The Bible has a lot to say about obedience. In the story of the Ten Commandments, we see just how important the concept of obedience is to God but our motivation for obedience is always love. Through Jesus’ story, we find the perfect example of obedience. Here are our top 21 Bible verses about obeying God!

It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day.”

- Jeremiah 44:23

He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

- Luke 8:25

Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall strike you down.” And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and struck him down.

- 1 Kings 20:36

Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!

- Joshua 1:17

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

- 1 John 5:2

Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

- 1 Chronicles 29:23

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

- Jeremiah 22:21

Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”

- Ezra 7:26

And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.

- Ezekiel 36:27

You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”

- Deuteronomy 27:10

You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.

- Deuteronomy 26:17

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,

- Ezekiel 5:7

And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.

- Deuteronomy 28:2

For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

- 1 Peter 4:17

If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.

- 1 Samuel 12:14

But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

- Jeremiah 7:23

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

- Luke 17:6

“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

- Exodus 23:22

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

- Acts 5:29

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

- John 3:36

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And Samuel said, "Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.

- 1 Samuel 15:22

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