Many believers in God want to be someone who obeys God to be praised by God. But in real life, we often go against God’s words despite ourselves and fail to obey God. Why is that? How can we be someone who obeys God? Read these Bible verses and find the way to practice and enter.

Romans 13:5

Why you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Ephesians 5:21

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

1 Samuel 15:22

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

1 Samuel 15:22 - Obedience to God

Hebrews 5:9

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him;

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Deuteronomy 13:4

You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and join to him.

Ezekiel 20:19

I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

Genesis 6:22

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

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Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Acts 5:29

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 5:29 - Obey God

Daniel 7:27

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

1 Samuel 12:14

If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both you and also the king that reigns over you continue following the LORD your God:

John 14:15

Jesus once said, “If you love me, keep my commandments”.

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