Bible Verses About Obedience

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 have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

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

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

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 wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.

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—

if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.