Bible Verses About Obedience
Scripture on doing what God says — the love, the blessing, and the building on rock.
Obedience has a bad reputation and a beautiful reality: it is love in work clothes. These verses show what Scripture actually says about doing what God says — and what follows.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
If ye love me, keep my commandments — obedience as love's evidence.
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.
To obey is better than sacrifice.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Doers of the word, not hearers only.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
Blessings that overtake the obedient.
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:
The doer builds on rock — and the house stands.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Observe to do — then thou shalt have good success.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
The apostles' line in the sand: we ought to obey God rather than men.
Obedience is not how you earn God's love; it is what trusting it looks like in motion. Take the one thing he has made clear, and do it today.
