35 VERSES ON OBEYING GOD—EVEN WHEN IT’S HARD, DOESN’T MAKE SENSE, IS SCARY, OR YOU JUST PLAIN OUT DON’T WANT TO….

• Exodus 19:5 NIV
  Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession
  
• Exodus 23:22 ESV
  “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
• Leviticus 26:3-4 ESV
   “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴ then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit...
• Deuteronomy 4:39-40 NASB
  Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other. ⁴⁰ So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”
• Deuteronomy 11:1 NIV
  Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.
• Deuteronomy 11:26-28 ESV
   “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today,²⁸ and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
• Joshua 22:5 ESV
   Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of theLord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
• 1 Samuel 15:22 HCSB
  Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord?
  Look: to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.
• Psalm 103:17-18 ESV
  But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
      and his righteousness to children’s children,
  ¹⁸ to those who keep his covenant
      and remember to do his commandments.
• Psalm 119:44 NASB
  So I will keep Your law continually,
  Forever and ever.
• Psalm 119:60 NASB
  I hastened and did not delay
  To keep Your commandments.
• Proverbs 19:16 NLT
  Keep the commandments and keep your life;
      despising them leads to death.
• Ecclesiastes 12:13 NLT
  That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.
• Isaiah 1:19 ESV
  If you are willing and obedient,
      you shall eat the good of the land;
• Isaiah 48:18-19 NASB
  “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.
  ¹⁹ “Your descendants would have been like the sand,
  And your offspring like its grains;
  Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
• Jeremiah 7:23 ESV
   But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
• Matthew 7:21 ESV
  “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Luke 11:28 NIVHe replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
• John 12:26 ESV
  If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
• John 13:17 ESV
  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
• John 14:21 NASB
  He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
• John 15:10 NASB
  If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
• John 15:14 ESV
  You are my friends if you do what I command you.
• Acts 5:29 ESV
  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.”
• Romans 5:19 NIV
  For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
• Romans 6:16-17 ESV
  Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,^[a]you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed
• 2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
  We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
• Hebrews 11:8 ESV
  By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
• James 1:22-25 NLT
  But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. ²³ For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. ²⁴ You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. ²⁵ But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
• 1 Peter 1:14 NIV
  As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
• 1 John 3:22 NLT
  And we will receive from him whatever we ask because we obey him and do the things that please him.
• 1 John 3:24 NASB
   The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.
• 1 John 5:3 ESV
  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
• 2 John 1:6 ESV
   And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
• Revelation 14:12 ESV
  Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.