100 Bible Verses about Obedience (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about obedience, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

John 14:15 KJV

¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments.

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Acts 5:29 KJV

²⁹Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

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1 Peter 1:14 KJV

¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

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1 John 5:3 KJV

³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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Isaiah 1:19 KJV

¹⁹If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

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Luke 6:46 KJV

⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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Luke 11:28 KJV

²⁸But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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Exodus 23:22 KJV

²²But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

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Psalm 119:30 KJV

³⁰I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

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1 Samuel 15:22 KJV

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Philippians 2:8 KJV

⁸And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

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John 14:23 KJV

²³Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

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John 14:31 KJV

³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

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Hebrews 13:17 KJV

¹⁷Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

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Romans 6:16 KJV

¹⁶Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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James 1:22-25 KJV

²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: ²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. ²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth …

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Romans 5:19 KJV

¹⁹For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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Jeremiah 7:23 KJV

²³But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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Exodus 19:5 KJV

⁵Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

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1 John 3:24 KJV

²⁴And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

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John 8:51 KJV

⁵¹Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

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Psalm 119:60 KJV

⁶⁰I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

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2 Kings 18:6 KJV

⁶For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

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James 1:22 KJV

²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Matthew 7:21 KJV

²¹Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

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Ephesians 6:1 KJV

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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John 14:21 KJV

²¹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

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Psalm 112:1 KJV

¹Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

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Psalm 143:10 KJV

¹⁰Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

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2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

⁵Casting 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;

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Romans 1:5 KJV

⁵By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

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John 15:14 KJV

¹⁴Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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Ephesians 6:1-3 KJV

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. ²Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; ³That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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2 John 1:6 KJV

⁶And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

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Hebrews 5:9 KJV

⁹And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

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Titus 3:1 KJV

¹Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

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John 15:10 KJV

¹⁰If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

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Psalm 119:44 KJV

⁴⁴So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

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Acts 5:32 KJV

³²And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

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Deuteronomy 5:33 KJV

³³Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

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Deuteronomy 11:26-28 KJV

²⁶Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; ²⁷A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: ²⁸And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

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2 Chronicles 31:21 KJV

²¹And 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.

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Psalm 119:59 KJV

⁵⁹I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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Hebrews 5:8 KJV

⁸Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

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Romans 13:1 KJV

¹Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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1 John 3:22 KJV

²²And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

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Deuteronomy 6:18 KJV

¹⁸And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers.

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Proverbs 6:20 KJV

²⁰My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Deuteronomy 4:39-40 KJV

³⁹Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. ⁴⁰Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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Psalm 119:31 KJV

³¹I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.

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James 2:17 KJV

¹⁷Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

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Psalm 111:10 KJV

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

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Joshua 22:5 KJV

⁵But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Luke 6:46-48 KJV

⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? ⁴⁷Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: ⁴⁸He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

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James 2:24 KJV

²⁴Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

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Ecclesiastes 12:13 KJV

¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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Proverbs 19:16 KJV

¹⁶He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

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Deuteronomy 28:1 KJV

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Leviticus 26:3-13 KJV

³If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; ⁴Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ⁵And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. …

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Matthew 6:24 KJV

²⁴No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Joshua 1:8 KJV

⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

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Proverbs 10:8 KJV

⁸The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

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James 2:26 KJV

²⁶For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

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Colossians 3:22 KJV

²²Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God;

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John 13:17 KJV

¹⁷If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

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Psalm 119:112 KJV

¹¹²I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

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James 1:25 KJV

²⁵But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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Colossians 3:20 KJV

²⁰Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Romans 6:17 KJV

¹⁷But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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Joshua 5:6 KJV

⁶For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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1 Samuel 15:22-23 KJV

²²And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams. ²³For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

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Matthew 9:9 KJV

⁹And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

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Psalm 99:7 KJV

⁷He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

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Galatians 6:2 KJV

²Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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Romans 12:2 KJV

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Psalm 119:100-102 KJV

¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. ¹⁰¹I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. ¹⁰²I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV

⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Proverbs 16:7 KJV

⁷When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Deuteronomy 28:1-68 KJV

¹And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: ²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³Blessed shalt thou be in the …

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1 John 2:17 KJV

¹⁷And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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Philippians 2:12 KJV

¹²Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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1 John 5:2-3 KJV

²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. ³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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John 15:16 KJV

¹⁶Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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John 5:30 KJV

³⁰I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

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Matthew 19:17 KJV

¹⁷And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

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2 John 1:6-9 KJV

⁶And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. ⁷For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. ⁸Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. …

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Psalm 119:129 KJV

¹²⁹Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

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Psalm 119:2 KJV

²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

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Joshua 22:2 KJV

²And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

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Exodus 20:12 KJV

¹²Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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Romans 7:12 KJV

¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

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John 8:31-32 KJV

³¹Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; ³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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Luke 8:15 KJV

¹⁵But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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Luke 1:6 KJV

⁶And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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Psalm 103:18 KJV

¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

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