True love is expressed through obedience. If you love God you won’t find it difficult to obey his voice. Obedience is love.
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 14:15
Obedience is the key to a world of unlimited possibilities, Obedience always brings blessings.
1 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. 2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Romans 13:1-2
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, Titus 3:1
1 Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as Supreme, 2 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 1 Peter 2:13-14
Jesus said to them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marveled at him. Mark 12:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. Hebrews 13:17
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men. Acts 5:29
But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. Acts 4:19
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. 6 Try to please them all the time, not just when they are watching you. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart. Ephesians 6:5-6
In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. 1 Peter 5:5-6
They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. Matthew 22:21
Deuteronomy 28 – Blessings of obedience
Obedience to God always brings blessing
What Does the Bible Say About Obedience to God?
Bible verses about obedience to parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Colossians 3:20
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Genesis 27:8
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5:5
Fools reject their parents’ correction,
but anyone who accepts correction is wise. Proverbs 15:5
If you curse your parents, your life will end like a lamp that goes out in the dark. Proverbs 20:20
Jesus went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. His mother cherished every word in her heart. Luke 2:51
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 5:16
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Deuteronomy 21:18-21
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. Proverbs 30:17
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 6:20
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. Leviticus 20:9
Obedience is love Bible verse
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. John 14:15
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. John 14:23-24
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” John 14:21
He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 1 John 2:10
You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:14
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love. 2 John 1:6
10 blessings of obedience
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: Isaiah 1:19
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. Deuteronomy 30:15-16
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: Deuteronomy 28:1
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land. Leviticus 26:3-10
And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice. Genesis 22:18
He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” Luke 11:28
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Deuteronomy 30:8-10
If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Isaiah 48:18
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: Exodus 19:5
We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him. John 9:31
