Bible Verses About Obedience
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obedience, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 25,249 votes, led by John 14:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Obedience
John 14:151,266 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Acts 5:29879 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
1 Peter 1:14846 votes
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1 John 5:3530 votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Isaiah 1:19526 votes
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Luke 6:46509 votes
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Luke 11:28449 votes
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Exodus 23:22443 votes
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Psalms 119:30395 votes
I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
1 Samuel 15:22359 votes
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Philippians 2:8345 votes
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
John 14:23321 votes
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:31314 votes
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Hebrews 13:17304 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Romans 6:16301 votes
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
James 1:22-25300 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Romans 5:19289 votes
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Jeremiah 7:23280 votes
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Exodus 19:5278 votes
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
2 Kings 18:6272 votes
For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
1 John 3:24272 votes
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Psalms 119:60271 votes
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
John 8:51270 votes
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
James 1:22257 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Matthew 7:21216 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
What does the Bible say about obedience?
Readers most often cite John 14:15 on the subject of obedience. Across 25,249 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Acts 5:29, 1 Peter 1:14, 1 John 5:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.