Obedience to God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Deuteronomy 13:4 OT

  You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice. You shall serve him, and cling to him.

• Hebrews 11:6 NT

  Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

• Exodus 19:5 OT

  Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

• Jeremiah 7:23 OT

  but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

• Deuteronomy 11:27 OT

  the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;

• Isaiah 42:24 OT

  Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.

• Exodus 23:21 OT

  Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5 NT

  throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

• Romans 1:5 NT

  through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

• Romans 6:17 NT

  But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

• Romans 10:16 NT

  But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

• Romans 10:17 NT

  So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

• Ecclesiastes 12:13 OT

  This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

• Romans 13:1 NT

  Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

• 1 Samuel 15:22 OT

  Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

• Romans 5:19 NT

  For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

• Matthew 3:15 NT

  But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

• John 15:20 NT

  Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

• Philippians 2:5-8 NT

  Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And…

• Hebrews 5:8 NT

  though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

• Psalms 103:20 OT

  Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

• 1 Peter 1:14 NT

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 1:2 NT

  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

• Acts 4:19 NT

  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,