Bible Verses About Obedience (21 Verses)
This collection has 21 Bible verses about obedience: 9 from the Old Testament and 12 from the New Testament. Psalm appears most often (4 verses), across 14 books of Scripture.
What does the Bible say about obedience? Read 21 carefully selected Bible verses about obedience, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
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21 Bible Verses About Obedience
"If you love me, keep my commandments."
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
"But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men."
"Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
"as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,"
"As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:"
"For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous."
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."
"If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;"
"If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:"
"But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries."
"But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries."
"I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me."
"I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me."
"Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams."
"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."
"And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross."
"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
"But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. 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; for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does."
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
"Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you."
"Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you."
"Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?"
"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?"
"For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous."
"For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous."
"Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;"
"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:"
"Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”"
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."
"I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments."
"I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments."
"For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses."
"For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses."
"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness."
"Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness."
"One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”"
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
"Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments."
"Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments."
"throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;"
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible and the King James Version (both public domain), checked word for word against the full text. Updated October 2, 2026.
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This collection has 21 Bible verses about obedience: 9 from the Old Testament and 12 from the New Testament. Psalm appears most often (4 verses), across 14 books of Scripture. What does the Bible say about obedience? Read 21 carefully selected Bible verses about obedience, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
John 14:15: "If you love me, keep my commandments." Acts 5:29: "But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men." 1 Peter 1:14: "as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance," Full collection: 21 verses on this page (43% Old Testament, 57% New Testament).
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