Obedience
doctrineSubmitting to God's commands — not from mere duty, but from love and trust.
Not just a list of verses — a map of how ideas in Scripture connect and lead to each other.
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Obedience connects to different paths in Scripture:
Obedience arises from Humility and Wisdom, and leads to Sanctification and Joy.
Reading Path
Follow this theme through Scripture — one verse per step, in theological order.
“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”2 Corinthians 3:18 →
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Anchor Scriptures 20 verses
“Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.”
Read in context →“And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
Read in context →“But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
Read in context →“But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”
Read in context →“My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:”
Read in context →“And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.”
Read in context →“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:”
Read in context →“Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:”
Read in context →“For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.”
Read in context →“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Read in context →“Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Read in context →“And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.”
Read in context →“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
Read in context →“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;”
Read in context →“And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”
Read in context →“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:”
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