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What Does the Bible Say About Obedience to God?

Here are 7 Bible verses about Obedience to God, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1John 14:15

    If ye love me, keep my commandments.

    BSBIf you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

  2. #21 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.

    BSBBut Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

  3. #3James 1:22

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

    BSBBe doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

  4. #4Isaiah 1:19

    If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

    BSBIf you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

  5. #5Luke 6:46

    And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

    BSBWhy do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?

  6. #6John 14:23

    Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

    BSBJesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

  7. #7Romans 6:16

    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?

    BSBDo you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

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