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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.

  1. If ye love me, keep my commandments

    John 14:15

    If ye love me, keep my commandments.
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  2. 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.
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  3. Be ye doers of the word

    James 1:22

    But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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  4. 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.
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  5. 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.
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  6. 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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