Character & Virtues

Bible Verses About obeying

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Discover 14 powerful Bible verses about obeying. Study what Scripture teaches about this essential character & virtues topic.

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TranslationKey Verse: John 14:15
King James (KJV)If ye love me, keep my commandments.

14 Key Scriptures

If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. have: or, guide
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
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?
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. ordained: or, ordered
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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