Bible Verses About Obedience

Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.

Almost consumed me on earth have they, And I--I have not forsaken Thy precepts.

Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.

From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou--Thou hast directed me.

From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.

I have sworn, and I confirm it , To keep the judgments of Thy righteousness.

My soul is in my hand continually, And Thy law I have not forgotten.

I have inclined my heart To do Thy statutes, to the age-- to the end!

Pe. Wonderful are Thy testimonies, Therefore hath my soul kept them.

I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy commands I have done.

Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies, For all my ways are before Thee!

Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God--Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'

Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.

Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye--ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And--the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

And in My saying to the wicked: Thou surely diest, And--he hath turned back from his sin, And hath done judgment and righteousness,

(The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth--he doth not die.