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OBEDIENCE
General scriptures concerning GEN 18:19; EXO 19:5; 20:6; 24:7; NUM 9:23; 14:24; DEU 5:10; JOS 14:6-14; 22:2; 24:24; 1KI 3:14; 2KI 18:6; 21:8; NEH 1:5; PSA 1:2; 18:44; 25:10; 99:7; 103:17,18,20,21; 111
Passages on this topic · 300
- Genesis 17:9
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
- Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
- Exodus 19:5
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;
- Exodus 20:6
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- Exodus 23:22
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
- Exodus 24:7
He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”
- Leviticus 19:19
“‘You shall keep my statutes. “‘You shall not cross-breed different kinds of animals. “‘You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; “‘Don’t wear a garment made of two kinds of material.
- Leviticus 19:36
You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:37
“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”
- Leviticus 20:8
You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
- Leviticus 20:22
“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.
- Leviticus 22:31
“Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 26:3
“‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
- Leviticus 26:4
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.
- Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Leviticus 26:6
“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
- Leviticus 26:7
You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
- Leviticus 26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
- Leviticus 26:9
“‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
- Leviticus 26:10
You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Leviticus 26:11
I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:12
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- Leviticus 26:13
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
- Numbers 9:23
At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of Yahweh they traveled. They kept Yahweh’s command, at the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.
- Numbers 15:38
“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:
- Numbers 15:39
and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
- Numbers 15:40
that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:1
Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deuteronomy 4:2
You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
- Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from among you.
- Deuteronomy 4:4
But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
- Deuteronomy 4:5
Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
- Deuteronomy 4:8
What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
- Deuteronomy 4:9
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
- Deuteronomy 4:10
the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
- Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 4:12
Yahweh spoke to you out of the middle of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; you only heard a voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:13
He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.
- Deuteronomy 4:14
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 4:15
Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
- Deuteronomy 4:16
lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:17
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
- Deuteronomy 4:18
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
- Deuteronomy 4:19
and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Deuteronomy 4:20
But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- Deuteronomy 4:21
Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance;
- Deuteronomy 4:22
but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over, and possess that good land.
- Deuteronomy 4:23
Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:24
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 4:25
When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 4:27
Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Deuteronomy 4:28
There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 4:31
For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
- Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
- Deuteronomy 4:33
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
- Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 4:35
It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
- Deuteronomy 4:36
Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 4:37
Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 4:38
to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
- Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.
- Deuteronomy 4:40
You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Deuteronomy 5:1
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
- Deuteronomy 5:2
Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
- Deuteronomy 5:3
Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
- Deuteronomy 5:4
Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
- Deuteronomy 5:5
(I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word: for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the mountain;) saying,
- Deuteronomy 5:6
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 5:7
“You shall have no other gods before me.
- Deuteronomy 5:8
“You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
- Deuteronomy 5:9
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Deuteronomy 5:10
and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 5:11
“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
- Deuteronomy 5:12
“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 5:13
You shall labor six days, and do all your work;
- Deuteronomy 5:14
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
- Deuteronomy 5:15
You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 5:17
“You shall not murder.
- Deuteronomy 5:18
“You shall not commit adultery.
- Deuteronomy 5:19
“You shall not steal.
- Deuteronomy 5:20
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 5:21
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”
- Deuteronomy 5:22
Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.
- Deuteronomy 5:23
When you heard the voice out of the middle of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
- Deuteronomy 5:24
and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
- Deuteronomy 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear Yahweh our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.
- Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as we have, and lived?
- Deuteronomy 5:27
Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
- Deuteronomy 5:28
Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when you spoke to me; and Yahweh said to me, “I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have well said all that they have spoken.
- Deuteronomy 5:29
Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
- Deuteronomy 5:30
“Go tell them, ‘Return to your tents.’
- Deuteronomy 5:31
But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.”
- Deuteronomy 5:32
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
- Deuteronomy 6:1
Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 6:2
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
- Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
- Deuteronomy 6:5
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
- Deuteronomy 6:6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
- Deuteronomy 6:7
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 6:9
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 6:10
It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
- Deuteronomy 6:11
and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
- Deuteronomy 6:12
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 6:13
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
- Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
- Deuteronomy 6:15
for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 6:16
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Deuteronomy 6:17
You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 6:18
You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 6:19
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 6:20
When your son asks you in time to come, saying, “What do the testimonies, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you mean?”
- Deuteronomy 6:21
then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
- Deuteronomy 6:22
and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
- Deuteronomy 6:23
and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
- Deuteronomy 6:24
Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.
- Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
- Deuteronomy 8:1
You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 8:2
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
- Deuteronomy 8:4
Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deuteronomy 8:5
You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
- Deuteronomy 8:6
You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
- Deuteronomy 8:11
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
- Deuteronomy 8:12
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
- Deuteronomy 8:13
and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
- Deuteronomy 8:14
then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
- Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
- Deuteronomy 8:17
and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
- Deuteronomy 8:18
But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
- Deuteronomy 8:19
It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 10:13
to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
- Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
- Deuteronomy 11:2
Know this day: for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
- Deuteronomy 11:3
his signs, and his works, which he did in the middle of Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and to all his land;
- Deuteronomy 11:8
Therefore you shall keep all the commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, where you go over to possess it;
- Deuteronomy 11:9
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 11:13
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:14
that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
- Deuteronomy 11:15
I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
- Deuteronomy 11:16
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Deuteronomy 11:17
and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
- Deuteronomy 11:18
Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
- Deuteronomy 11:19
You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Deuteronomy 11:20
You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
- Deuteronomy 11:21
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
- Deuteronomy 11:22
For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;
- Deuteronomy 11:23
then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- Deuteronomy 11:24
Every place whereon the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
- Deuteronomy 11:25
No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Deuteronomy 11:26
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
- Deuteronomy 11:27
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;
- Deuteronomy 11:28
and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
- Deuteronomy 11:32
You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
- Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.
- Deuteronomy 26:16
Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 26:17
You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
- Deuteronomy 26:18
Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
- Deuteronomy 27:1
Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.
- Deuteronomy 27:2
It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.
- Deuteronomy 27:3
You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deuteronomy 27:4
It shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall coat them with plaster.
- Deuteronomy 27:5
There you shall build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones. You shall not use any iron tool on them.
- Deuteronomy 27:6
You shall build Yahweh your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:7
You shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:8
You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
- Deuteronomy 27:9
Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silence, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 27:10
You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
- Deuteronomy 28:1
It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:2
All these blessings will come upon you, and overtake you, if you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.
- Deuteronomy 28:3
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
- Deuteronomy 28:4
You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Joshua 14:6
Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.
- Joshua 14:7
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
- Joshua 14:8
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
- Joshua 14:9
Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’
- Joshua 14:10
“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
- Joshua 14:11
As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.
- Joshua 14:12
Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”
- Joshua 14:13
Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
- Joshua 14:14
Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.
- Joshua 22:2
and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
- Joshua 24:24
The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
- 1 Kings 3:14
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
- 2 Kings 18:6
For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
- 2 Kings 21:8
I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
- Nehemiah 1:5
and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
- Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Psalms 18:44
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
- Psalms 25:10
All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Psalms 99:7
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
- Psalms 103:17
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
- Psalms 103:20
Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
- Psalms 103:21
Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
- Psalms 111:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Psalms 112:1
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
- Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
- Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
- Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
- Psalms 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
- Psalms 119:8
I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. BET
- Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Psalms 119:22
Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
- Psalms 119:30
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
- Psalms 119:31
I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
- Psalms 119:33
Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
- Psalms 119:44
So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
- Psalms 119:45
I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
- Psalms 119:55
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.
- Psalms 119:56
This is my way, that I keep your precepts. CHET
- Psalms 119:59
I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
- Psalms 119:60
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
- Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD
- Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
- Psalms 143:10
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
- Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
- Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
- Proverbs 28:7
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
- Isaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
- Jeremiah 7:23
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to 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.’
- Ezekiel 18:19
“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
- Ezekiel 33:14
Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
- Ezekiel 33:15
if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Ezekiel 33:16
None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
- Daniel 7:27
The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
- Matthew 5:19
Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
- Matthew 9:9
As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.
- Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
- Matthew 13:8
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
- Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
- Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Matthew 25:22
“He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Mark 2:14
As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.
- Mark 3:35
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
- Mark 4:20
Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”
- Luke 1:6
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
- Luke 6:47
Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.
- Luke 6:48
He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
- Luke 8:15
That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
- Luke 8:21
But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
- Luke 11:2
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
- Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
- Luke 12:38
They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
- John 8:28
Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
- John 8:51
Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
- John 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
- John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
- John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- John 14:31
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
- John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
- John 15:14
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- John 15:16
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- Acts 4:19
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,
- Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Romans 6:17
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.
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
- Hebrews 10:7
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
- James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
- James 2:11
For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
- James 2:12
So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
- 1 Peter 1:2
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.
- 1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
- 1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
- 1 John 2:4
One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.
- 1 John 2:5
But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
- 1 John 2:6
he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
- 1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
- 1 John 3:22
and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
- 1 John 3:24
He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- 1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
- 1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
- 2 John 1:6
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
- 2 John 1:7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
- 2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
- 2 John 1:9
Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
- Revelation 12:17
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
- Revelation 22:7
“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
- Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).