Bible Verses About Obedience to God

"ADONAI will order a blessing to be with you in your barns and in everything you undertake; he will bless you in the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

"ADONAI will establish you as a people separated out for himself, as he has sworn to you - if you will observe the mitzvot of ADONAI your God and follow his ways.

Then all the peoples on earth will see that ADONAI's name, his presence, is with you; so that they will be afraid of you.

"ADONAI will give you great abundance of good things - of the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land in the land ADONAI swore to your ancestors to give you.

ADONAI will open for you his good treasure, the sky, to give your land its rain at the right seasons and to bless everything you undertake. You will lend to many nations and not borrow;

ADONAI will make you the head and not the tail; and you will be only above, never below - if you will listen to, observe and obey the mitzvot of ADONAI your God

and not turn away from any of the words I am ordering you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow after other gods and serve them.

"But if you refuse to pay attention to what ADONAI your God says, and do not observe and obey all his mitzvot and regulations which I am giving you today, then all the following curses will be yours in abundance:

"A curse on you in the city, and a curse on you in the countryside.

"A curse on your grain-basket and kneading-bowl.

"A curse on the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land and the young of your cattle and flocks.

"A curse on you when you come in, and a curse on you when you go out.

"ADONAI will send on you curses, disasters and frustration in everything you set out to do, until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of your evil actions in abandoning me.

"ADONAI will bring on you a plague that will stay with you until he has exterminated you from the land you are entering in order to take possession of it.

ADONAI will strike you down with wasting diseases, fever, inflammation, fiery heat, drought, blasting winds and mildew; and they will pursue you until you perish.

"The sky over your head will be brass and the earth under you iron.

ADONAI will turn the rain your land needs into powder and dust that will fall on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

"ADONAI your God will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will advance on them one way and flee before them seven. You will become an object of horror to every kingdom on earth.

Your carcasses will become food for all the birds in the air and the wild animals, and there will be no one to scare them away.

ADONAI will strike you down with the boils that broke out on the Egyptians, tumors, skin lesions and itching, all incurable.

ADONAI will strike you with insanity, blindness and utter confusion.

You will grope about at noon like a blind person groping in the dark, unable to find your way. "You will be continually oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.

You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will marry her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not use its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you won't eat any of its meat. Your donkey will be taken away from you by force as you watch, and you won't get it back. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.

Your sons and daughters will be handed over to another people; you will watch for them longingly all day but not see them; and there will be nothing you can do about it.