Scriptures about obedience to God, His commandments, and the proper attitude toward authority.
12 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Deuteronomy 10:12–13
12 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only that you fear the Lord your God, walk in all His ways, love Him, and serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and keep the commandments of the Lord [your God] and His statutes, which I command you today, so that it may be well with you.
Deuteronomy 28:1–2
1 If you carefully listen to the voice of the Lord your God and diligently obey all His commandments that I command you today, when you cross over [the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving you], then the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth; 2 and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel answered: Does the Lord delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than the fat of rams;
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all;
John 14:15
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered: We must obey God rather than men.
Romans 6:16–18
16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether slaves of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were committed. 18 Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Philippians 2:12–13
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to act according to His good pleasure.
James 1:22–25
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror: 24 he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues in it—not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work—will be blessed in what he does.
1 John 5:2–3
2 By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
