Obedience

256 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

48 sections

Abraham

Genesis 12:1–4 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. …
Genesis 17:23 On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money— every male among the members of Abraham’s household— and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
Genesis 21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 22:12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
Nehemiah 9:8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept …
Acts 7:3–8 and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’ …
Hebrews 11:8–17 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. …
James 2:21 Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?

Asa

2 Chronicles 14:2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

Bethuel and Laban

Genesis 24:50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.

Caleb

Deuteronomy 1:36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

Cornelius

Acts 10:2 He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.

Cyrus

2 Chronicles 36:22–23 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: …
Ezra 1:1–4 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: …

Daniel

Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, …

David

1 Samuel 18:14 and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.
1 Samuel 25:28 Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
1 Kings 11:6 So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
1 Kings 11:34 Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
1 Kings 15:5 For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
2 Chronicles 29:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
Acts 13:22 After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

Elisha

1 Kings 19:19–21 So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him. …

Enjoined

Genesis 17:9 God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant— you and your descendants in the generations after you.
Exodus 23:22 But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.
Leviticus 19:19 You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
Leviticus 19:36–37 You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. …
Leviticus 20:8 And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 20:22 You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Leviticus 22:31 You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 26:3–13 If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments, …
Numbers 15:38–40 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. …
Deuteronomy 4:1–40 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. …
Deuteronomy 5:1–33 Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully. …
Deuteronomy 6:1–25 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, …
Deuteronomy 8:1–6 You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers. …
Deuteronomy 8:11–14 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. …
Deuteronomy 8:16–20 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. …
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, …
Deuteronomy 11:1–3 You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments. …
Deuteronomy 11:8–9 You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, …
Deuteronomy 11:13–28 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, …
Deuteronomy 11:32 be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
Deuteronomy 13:4 You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
Deuteronomy 26:16–18 The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul. …
Deuteronomy 27:1–10 Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today. …
Deuteronomy 28:1–68 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. …
Deuteronomy 32:46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
Joshua 22:5 But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all …
Joshua 23:6–7 Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left. …
Joshua 24:14–15 Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. …
1 Samuel 12:24 Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
2 Kings 17:37–38 And you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. …
1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
1 Chronicles 28:9–10 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by …
1 Chronicles 28:20 David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the …
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Ezra 7:23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?
Psalm 76:11 Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
Jeremiah 26:13 So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
Jeremiah 38:20 “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
Matthew 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
Matthew 19:17 “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Mark 2:14 As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.
John 12:26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:21 Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
Galatians 3:10 All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Galatians 3:12 The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Galatians 5:3 Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Ephesians 4:1 As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
Ephesians 4:17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
Ephesians 6:6–8 And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. …
Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
1 Timothy 6:14 Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 6:18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
Hebrews 13:16 And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
James 1:22–25 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. …

Exemplified

Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Numbers 9:23 They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.
Numbers 14:24 But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
Joshua 14:6–14 Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. …
2 Kings 18:6 He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
2 Kings 20:3 “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
2 Chronicles 24:16 And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
2 Chronicles 31:20–21 So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God. …
Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Nehemiah 7:2 Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
Psalm 17:3 You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
Psalm 26:3–6 For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth. …
Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
Psalm 101:2–3 I will ponder the way that is blameless — when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart. …
Psalm 106:30–31 But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. …
Psalm 119:30–31 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. …
Psalm 119:40 How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Psalm 119:44 I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.
Psalm 119:47–48 I delight in Your commandments because I love them. …
Psalm 119:51 The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
Psalm 119:54–56 Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage. …
Psalm 119:59–60 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies. …
Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
Psalm 119:69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Psalm 119:100–102 I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts. …
Psalm 119:105–106 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. …
Psalm 119:110 The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
Psalm 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
Psalm 119:166–168 I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments. …
Acts 23:1 Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
Acts 24:16 In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
2 Corinthians 1:12 For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God — not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 6:3–4 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry. …
Philippians 3:7–14 But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ. …
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.
Revelation 2:19 I know your deeds — your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance — and your latest deeds are greater than your first.
Revelation 3:4 But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
Revelation 14:4–5 These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. …

Ezra

Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

General Scriptures Concerning

Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations — for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 20:6 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Numbers 9:23 They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.
Numbers 14:24 But because My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit it.
Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Joshua 14:6–14 Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. …
Joshua 22:2 and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
Joshua 24:24 So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”
1 Kings 3:14 So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
2 Kings 18:6 He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
2 Kings 21:8 I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them— the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
Nehemiah 1:5 Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 18:44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
Psalm 25:10 All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
Psalm 103:17–18 But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children — …
Psalm 103:20–21 Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command. …
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalm 112:1 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Psalm 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
Psalm 119:4–6 You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. …
Psalm 119:8 I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.
Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
Psalm 119:15–16 I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways. …
Psalm 119:22 Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
Psalm 119:30–31 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me. …
Psalm 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
Psalm 119:44–45 I will always obey Your law, forever and ever. …
Psalm 119:55–56 In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law. …
Psalm 119:59–60 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies. …
Psalm 119:72 The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Psalm 119:77 May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:87 They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.
Psalm 119:97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Psalm 119:100–102 I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts. …
Psalm 119:104–106 I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. …
Psalm 119:109 I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
Psalm 119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
Psalm 119:129 Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
Psalm 119:167–168 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly. …
Psalm 143:10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
Proverbs 1:33 But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
Proverbs 19:16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
Proverbs 28:7 A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Jeremiah 7:23 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.
Ezekiel 18:19 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.
Ezekiel 33:14–16 But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right— …
Daniel 7:27 Then the sovereignty, dominion, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey Him.’
Matthew 5:19 So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 13:8 Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
Matthew 13:23 But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
Matthew 25:20–23 The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ …
Mark 2:14 As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.
Mark 3:35 For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
Mark 4:20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
Luke 1:6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
Luke 6:46–48 Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say? …
Luke 8:15 But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Luke 8:21 But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Luke 11:2 So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Luke 12:37–38 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them. …
John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
John 8:51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
John 10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
John 14:31 But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will remain — so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
Acts 4:19 But Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than God.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Hebrews 10:7 Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
James 2:10–12 Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. …
1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
1 John 2:3–6 By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. …
1 John 2:17 The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
1 John 3:22 and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
1 John 3:24 Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
1 John 5:2–3 By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. …
2 John 6–9 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love. …
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
Revelation 22:7 “Behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

Gideon

Judges 6:25–28 On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. …

Hanani

Nehemiah 7:2 Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.

Hezekiah

2 Kings 18:6 He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
2 Chronicles 31:20–21 So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God. …
Isaiah 38:3 saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Jacob

Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:7 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

Jehoiada

2 Chronicles 24:16 And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.

Jehoshaphat

2 Chronicles 17:3–6 Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, …
2 Chronicles 20:32 And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 22:9 Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the …

Jesus

Matthew 3:15 “Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Matthew 26:42 A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
Luke 22:42 “Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
John 4:32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
John 4:34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
John 5:30 I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 12:49–50 I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. …
John 14:31 But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
John 17:4 I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
Hebrews 3:2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

Job

Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

John and James

Mark 1:19–20 Going on a little farther, He saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat, mending their nets. …

John the Baptist

Matthew 3:15 “Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.

Jonah

Jonah 3:3 This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

Joseph

Matthew 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and embraced Mary as his wife.
Matthew 2:14 So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

Joshua

Joshua 10:40 So Joshua conquered the whole region— the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings— leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God …
Joshua 11:15 As the LORD had commanded His servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. That is what Joshua did, leaving nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

Josiah

2 Kings 22:2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
2 Kings 23:24–25 Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the …

Jotham

2 Chronicles 36:22–23 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: …

Levi

Mark 2:14 As He was walking along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Levi got up and followed Him.

Levites

2 Chronicles 29:34 However, since there were not enough priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was finished and until the priests had consecrated themselves. For the Levites had been more diligent …

Mary

Luke 1:38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.

Matthew

Matthew 9:9 As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.

Moses

Numbers 27:12–22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites. …
Hebrews 3:2–3 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. …

Moses and Aaron

Exodus 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
Exodus 40:16 Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:23 He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:32 They washed whenever they entered the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Nathanael

John 1:47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Ninevites

Jonah 3:5–10 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. …

Noah

Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:22 So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
Genesis 7:5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Paul

Acts 23:1 Paul looked directly at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have conducted myself before God in all good conscience to this day.”
Acts 26:4–5 Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem. …
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience as did my forefathers, as I constantly remember you night and day in my prayers.

Reubenites

Joshua 22:2–3 and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you. …

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego

Daniel 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

Simeon

Luke 2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Simon and Andrew

Mark 1:16–18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. …

The Disciples

John 17:6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

The Israelites

Exodus 12:28 And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 32:25–29 Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies. …
Exodus 39:42–43 The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses. …
Numbers 9:20–21 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command. …
Deuteronomy 33:9 He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
Judges 2:7 And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
Psalm 99:7 He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

The Rich Young Man

Matthew 19:20 “All these I have kept,” said the young man. “What do I still lack?”
Mark 10:19–20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’” …
Luke 18:21 “All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

Under the Preaching of Haggai

Haggai 1:12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had …

Uzziah

2 Chronicles 26:4–5 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done. …

Zacharias

Luke 1:6 Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

Obedience

Abraham

Asa

Bethuel and Laban

Caleb

Cornelius

Cyrus

Daniel

David

Elisha

Enjoined

Exemplified

Ezra

General Scriptures Concerning

Gideon

Hanani

Hezekiah

Jacob

Jehoiada

Jehoshaphat

Jesus

Job

John and James

John the Baptist

Jonah

Joseph

Joshua

Josiah

Jotham

Levi

Levites

Mary

Matthew

Moses

Moses and Aaron

Nathanael

Ninevites

Noah

Paul

Reubenites

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego

Simeon

Simon and Andrew

The Disciples

The Israelites

The Rich Young Man

Under the Preaching of Haggai

Uzziah

Zacharias

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