Bible Verses About obedience

Scripture answer

Obedience in Scripture flows from love, not fear. These verses show what it looks like to follow God day by day.

Start with John 14:15, James 1:22, Deuteronomy 5:33; read each passage in its chapter.

If you love me, keep my commands.

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper.

To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.

In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome.

Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.