Obedience
See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 30:15-16
Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.
- Deuteronomy 6:18
Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
- Deuteronomy 6:3
If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.
- Deuteronomy 7:12
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
- Matthew 7:24-25
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
- Deuteronomy 5:29
Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.
- Deuteronomy 29:9
Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
- Philippians 4:9
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:19
If they obey and serve him, they will spend the rest of their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.
- Job 36:11
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
- John 15:10
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
- John 13:17
But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
- James 1:25
And receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
- 1 John 3:22
For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
- Romans 2:13
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”
- John 5:24
“For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
- Matthew 12:50
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
- 1 John 2:17
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
- Matthew 7:21
Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right.
- Psalm 106:3
And, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him
- Hebrews 5:9
Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
- John 8:51
