The best Bible verses for obedience (NASB) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for obedience (NASB), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law."Acts 21:24
"take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law."Acts 21:24
"As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts [which were yours] in your ignorance,"1 Peter 1:14
"For to this end also I wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things."2 Corinthians 2:9
"His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling."2 Corinthians 7:15
"[We are] destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and [we are] taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"2 Corinthians 10:5
"'But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,"Deuteronomy 30:17
"And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all [these] things in her heart."Luke 2:51
"Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."Philippians 2:8
"Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered."2 Chronicles 31:21
"Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as [their fathers]."Judges 2:17
"The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith."Acts 6:7
"Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed,"Titus 3:1
"'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."John 3:16
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 (NASB) are Acts 21:24, 1 Peter 1:14, 2 Corinthians 2:9. 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 (NASB) 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 (NASB), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.