Obedience: General Scriptures Concerning

For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.

But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.

…but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. …

…and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

…to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.

Bless the LORD, all His hosts, you servants who do His will.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.

You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. …

I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.

Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.

I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.

This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.

Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.

I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts. …

I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. …

I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.

I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.

I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.

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

…but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right— …

Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.’

So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.

But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”

The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ …

As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

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

But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.

But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus 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.

But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.

But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.

But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. …

…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. …

The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

…and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love. …

And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.

“Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.