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10 Bible verses about Obedience KJV

Obedience in the Bible follows love rather than replacing it. If ye love me, keep my commandments, in that order. These verses cover what God asks, what Samuel told Saul about obeying being better than sacrifice, and the obedience Jesus himself kept all the way to a cross.

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John 14:15 · KJV

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1 Samuel 15:22 · KJV

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.

James 1:22 · KJV

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Deuteronomy 11:1 · KJV

Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Acts 5:29 · KJV

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

John 15:10 · KJV

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

Romans 6:16 · KJV

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?

1 John 5:3 · KJV

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Hebrews 5:8 · KJV

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

Luke 6:46 · KJV

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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