What Does the Bible Say About Obedience?

"If you love me, keep my commands."

"If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth."

"But Samuel replied: 'Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice...'"

"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."

"Peter and the other apostles replied: 'We must obey God rather than human beings!'"

"Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey — whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?"

"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."

"He replied, 'Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.'"

"And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross!"