Bible Verses About Obedience

The Torah you have spoken is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your Torah is my delight.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

How I love your Torah! It is my meditation all day.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

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

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your Torah.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Whoever keeps the Torah is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Yet you say, Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.