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Being Obedient
John 14:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
James 2:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Romans 5:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
James 2:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Esther 4:16 ESV / 15 helpful votes
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
James 1:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Luke 11:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Romans 12:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes
“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Romans 8:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
2 John 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Galatians 3:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Acts 2:38 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
John 14:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 14:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Luke 13:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Romans 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 12:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes
And Samuel said, “Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.
Joshua 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Exodus 19:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
1 John 2:3-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Peter 1:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Colossians 3:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
Philippians 2:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Romans 12:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes
He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Acts 5:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
John 15:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 8:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
Matthew 7:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Isaiah 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
Job 36:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes
If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.
1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 5:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
1 John 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
James 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 1:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Acts 5:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
John 15:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
Proverbs 13:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.
Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Joshua 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:26-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
Revelation 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
1 John 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
1 John 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Hebrews 5:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Ephesians 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Romans 8:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
John 14:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John 6:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 4:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 9:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Mark 13:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
Matthew 26:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
Matthew 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Matthew 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.
Proverbs 23:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Deuteronomy 11:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.
Exodus 21:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
Genesis 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
Genesis 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
1 John 3:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
1 Peter 4:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
James 2:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.
Philemon 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.
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