The best Bible verses for obedience (KJV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for obedience (KJV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say."Philemon 1:21
"Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say."Philemon 1:21
"Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law."Acts 21:24
"As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:"1 Peter 1:14
"For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things."2 Corinthians 2:9
"And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him."2 Corinthians 7:15
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"2 Corinthians 10:5
"But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;"Deuteronomy 30:17
"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."Luke 2:51
"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. fashion: or habit"Philippians 2:8
"And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered."2 Chronicles 31:21
"And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers 1 walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so."Judges 2:17
"And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith."Acts 6:7
"Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,"Titus 3:1
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for obedience (KJV) are Philemon 1:21, Acts 21:24, 1 Peter 1:14. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to obedience (KJV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for obedience (KJV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.