Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

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Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

1 Kings 8:60-61 (NIV)
⁶⁰so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and that there is no other.
⁶¹But your hearts must be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time."

James 1:22 (NIV)
²²Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

Exodus 19:5 (NIV)
⁵Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

Galatians 6:7-8 (NIV)
⁷Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
⁸The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

John 14:15 (NIV)
¹⁵"If you love me, you will obey what I command.

Luke 6:47-49 (NIV)
⁴⁷I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice.
⁴⁸He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
⁴⁹But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete."

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

James 2:22-23 (NIV)
²²You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
²³And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

Acts 5:29 (NIV)
²⁹Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!

1 Corinthians 8:12 (NIV)
¹²When you sin against your brothers in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

1 Corinthians 8:13 (NIV)
¹³Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.

Luke 18:16-17 (NIV)
¹⁶But Jesus called the children to him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
¹⁷I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."

1 Corinthians 9:27 (NIV)
²⁷No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
⁵We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

Hebrews 12:9-10 (NIV)
⁹Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!
¹⁰Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.

Proverbs 25:28 (NIV)
²⁸Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.

Luke 16:10 (NIV)
¹⁰"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Hebrews 2:9-10 (NIV)
⁹But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
¹⁰In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

Psalms 51:6 (NIV)
⁶Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Mark 8:34-37 (NIV)
³⁴Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
³⁵For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.
³⁶What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
³⁷Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

1 John 2:17 (NIV)
¹⁷The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

Joel 2:13 (NIV)
¹³Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

John 15:6-7 (NIV)
⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
⁷If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.

John 15:10 (NIV)
¹⁰If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

Joshua 24:20 (NIV)
²⁰If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you."

Bible Scripture Quotes on the Importance of Obedience.

2 Chronicles 17:3-4 (NIV)
³The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because in his early years he walked in the ways his father David had followed. He did not consult the Baals
⁴but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel.

Hebrews 10:38 (NIV)
³⁸But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."

1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV)
²²But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Isaiah 1:19-20 (NIV)
¹⁹If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best from the land;
²⁰but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.