A Jonah mindset Pt 1

Obey That God Says

 

1 Samuel 15:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes  

And Samuel said, “Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes  

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

John 14:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes  

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 11:27-28 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

The blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.

James 1:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

Matthew 7:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

Luke 11:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

Exodus 24:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

John 14:23-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

Romans 6:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Hebrews 5:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,

2 John 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes  

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.