Obedience to God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Exodus 5:2 OT

  Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

• Nehemiah 9:17 OT

  and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful,…

• Deuteronomy 11:28 OT

  and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

• Deuteronomy 28:15-68 OT

  But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you. You will be cursed in…

• Joshua 5:6 OT

  For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them…

• Isaiah 1:20 OT

  but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

• Genesis 6:22 OT

  Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

• Genesis 12:1-4 OT

  Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I…

• Hebrews 11:8 NT

  By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

• Genesis 22:3 OT

  Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

• Genesis 22:12 OT

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Exodus 12:28 OT

  The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

• Numbers 32:12 OT

  except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Yahweh completely.’

• 1 Kings 15:11 OT

  Asa did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 17:5 OT

  So he went and did according to Yahweh’s word; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith that is before the Jordan.

• 2 Kings 18:6 OT

  For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

• 2 Kings 22:2 OT

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

• Psalms 119:106 OT

  I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

• Haggai 1:12 OT

  Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and…

• Matthew 1:24 NT

  Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;

• Matthew 2:12 NT

  Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

• Luke 1:6 NT

  They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

• Acts 26:19 NT

  “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

• Romans 16:19 NT

  For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.