Bible Verses about “obeying”
The Bible contains 20 verses about obeying across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ 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.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“¶ ‹If ye love me, keep my commandments.›”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“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.”
“Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”
“‹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:›”
“‹And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:›”
“‹And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.›”
“‹And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.›”
“But he said, ‹Yea rather, blessed› [are] ‹they that hear the word of God, and keep it.›”
“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:”
“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?”
“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.”
“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:”
“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.”
“¶ Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.”