What scripture says
Bible verses about obedience
Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." In scripture obedience is the shape love takes — not a way of earning favour, but a response to it. These passages speak of hearing God's word and doing it.
If ye love me, keep my commandments
John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Read it in its chapter →To obey is better than sacrifice
1 Samuel 15:22
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.
Read it in its chapter →Be ye doers of the word
James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Read it in its chapter →We ought to obey God rather than men
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Read it in its chapter →Fear God, and keep his commandments
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Read it in its chapter →If thou shalt hearken diligently
Deuteronomy 28:1
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:
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Hymns to sing
- A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining ForthPaul Gerhardt (1607–1676)
- All Depends On Our Possessing
- Awake, My Soul, And With The SunThomas Ken (1637–1711)
- Baptized Into Thy Name Most HolyJohann Jakob Rambach (1693–1735)
- Blessed AssuranceFanny Jane Crosby (1820–1915)
- God the Father Be Our StayMartin Luther (1483–1546)