obey
What does the Bible say about obey? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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15If you love me, keep my commandments.
29But Peter and the Apostles responded by saying: “It is necessary to obey God, more so than men.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.
28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”
22And Samuel said: “Does the Lord want holocausts and victims, and not instead that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifice. And to heed is greater than to offer the fat of rams.
17Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.
5If, therefore, you will hear my voice, and you will keep my covenant, you will be to me a particular possession out of all people. For all the earth is mine.
14Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,
16Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
22So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves.
1“And so, love the Lord your God, and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments, at all times.
6And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment that you have heard in the same way from the beginning, and in which you should walk.
3And we can be sure that we have known him by this: if we observe his commandments.
1Let every soul be subject to higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those who have been ordained by God.