Bible Verses About Obeying God
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for obeying god, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,117 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 Obeying God
John 14:15440 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Luke 11:28359 votes
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
Acts 5:29312 votes
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
1 Samuel 15:22215 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.
James 1:22206 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Exodus 19:5175 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:
John 14:21148 votes
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Romans 6:16148 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?
Matthew 7:21145 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.
Deuteronomy 11:1137 votes
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
John 3:36131 votes
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 14:23126 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.
Deuteronomy 13:4120 votes
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
1 John 5:3116 votes
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Matthew 7:21-23108 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.
Psalms 119:10598 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Titus 3:187 votes
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Deuteronomy 5:3383 votes
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Romans 5:1983 votes
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Matthew 7:13-1481 votes
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Romans 13:173 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Acts 5:3271 votes
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
1 Corinthians 15:5870 votes
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Romans 12:168 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Joshua 1:865 votes
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
What does the Bible say about obeying god?
Readers most often cite John 14:15 on the subject of obeying god. Across 9,117 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 11:28, Acts 5:29, 1 Samuel 15:22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.