Quotes About Obedience

My son, keep your fatherís commandment, and do not forsake your motherís teaching.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.

Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not associate with the rebellious.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

A servant cannot be corrected by words alone; though he understands, he will not respond.

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.

Keep the kingís command, I say, because of your oath before God.

Whoever keeps his command will come to no harm, and a wise heart knows the right time and procedure.

When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!”

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Laundererís Field,