Quotes About Obedience

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares the Lord.

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

Then I said, ëHere I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.í”

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

By faith Mosesí parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the kingís edict.

By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the kingís anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch Israelís own firstborn.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,

But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.