Concordance

“Obey” in the Bible

190 verses contain “obey” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 27:13 His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
Genesis 27:43 So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
Genesis 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 41:40 You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
Leviticus 26:18 And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21 If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:27 But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
Numbers 3:51 And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the word of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 15:22 Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
Numbers 15:39 …may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own…
Numbers 15:40 Then you will remember and obey all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
Numbers 27:20 Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
Deuteronomy 8:20 Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:23 … command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed…
Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:27 a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
Deuteronomy 12:28 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right…
Deuteronomy 13:18 because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 15:5 if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Deuteronomy 21:20 and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 26:14 …it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded…
Deuteronomy 27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high…
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and…
Deuteronomy 28:45 …and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave…
Deuteronomy 28:62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 30:2 and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
Deuteronomy 30:8 And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you today.
Deuteronomy 30:10 if you obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and with all…
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
Deuteronomy 30:13 And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to…
Deuteronomy 34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Joshua 1:17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.
Joshua 1:18 Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”
Joshua 5:6 … war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a…
Joshua 22:2 and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
Joshua 23:6 Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.
Joshua 24:24 So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”
Judges 2:2 and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
Judges 2:17 …kly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had…
Judges 6:10 And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
1 Samuel 12:14 If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow…
1 Samuel 15:19 So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”
1 Samuel 15:20 “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
1 Samuel 15:22 …ORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat…
1 Samuel 15:24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have transgressed the LORD’s commandment and your instructions, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel 28:18 Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.
1 Samuel 28:21 …raught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told…
2 Samuel 22:45 Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
1 Kings 20:36 Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him…
2 Kings 10:6 …nd letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of…
2 Kings 18:12 …vant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor…
2 Kings 22:13 …the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about…
1 Chronicles 29:23 So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
2 Chronicles 23:6 …ter because they are consecrated, but all the people are to obey the requirement of the…
2 Chronicles 30:12 Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Nehemiah 9:29 …d their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not…
Nehemiah 9:34 Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.
Nehemiah 10:28 …who had separated themselves from the people of the land to obey the Law of God—along with their wives and all their sons and daughters who are able to…
Nehemiah 10:29 …Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our…
Esther 1:15 “According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”
Esther 2:20 Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
Esther 3:8 …ir laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate…
Job 36:11 If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.
Job 36:12 But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Psalms 18:44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
Psalms 81:11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
Psalms 81:15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
Psalms 103:18 to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
Psalms 105:45 that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
Psalms 119:44 I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.
Psalms 119:56 This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.
Psalms 119:88 Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.
Psalms 119:100 I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
Psalms 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
Psalms 119:129 Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
Psalms 119:136 My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
Psalms 119:145 I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
Psalms 119:167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
Psalms 119:168 I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Proverbs 30:17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Isaiah 30:9 These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
Isaiah 42:23 Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
Isaiah 42:24 …They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His…
Isaiah 50:10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on…
Jeremiah 3:13 … favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the…
Jeremiah 3:25 …nd our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our…
Jeremiah 7:23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well…
Jeremiah 9:13 And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
Jeremiah 11:3 You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
Jeremiah 11:4 …out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your…
Jeremiah 11:7 For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had…
Jeremiah 11:10 …ve returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have…
Jeremiah 12:17 But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
Jeremiah 16:12 And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Jeremiah 22:5 But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
Jeremiah 22:21 I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
Jeremiah 23:18 But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
Jeremiah 26:13 So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
Jeremiah 32:23 They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought…
Jeremiah 34:10 …s and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released…
Jeremiah 34:17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom…
Jeremiah 35:8 And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our…
Jeremiah 35:10 But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
Jeremiah 35:13 …residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the…
Jeremiah 35:14 …d they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed…
Jeremiah 35:17 …ainst them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not…
Jeremiah 35:18 …e LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he…
Jeremiah 37:2 But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
Jeremiah 38:20 “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
Jeremiah 40:3 …ecause you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to…
Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice…
Jeremiah 42:21 For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.
Jeremiah 43:7 So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.
Jeremiah 44:23 …you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has…
Daniel 7:27 …ll be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will serve and obey…
Daniel 9:10 and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
Daniel 9:11 …rael has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out…
Daniel 9:14 Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
Hosea 4:10 They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
Hosea 9:17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Joel 2:11 …y. Indeed, His camp is very large, for mighty are those who obey His command. For the Day of the LORD is great and very dreadful. Who can endure…
Micah 5:15 I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
Haggai 1:12 … the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had…
Zechariah 6:15 …osts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your…
Matthew 8:27 The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”
Matthew 28:20 and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Mark 1:27 All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
Mark 4:41 Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
Luke 2:51 Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
Luke 8:25 “Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
Luke 11:28 But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
Luke 17:6 And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 5:32 We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

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