Hath God Said?

Obedience is Better than sacrifice

Gen 3.1 “1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?””

Ex 19.5 “5 And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, for all the earth is mine,”

Deut 11.1 “1 “And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always.”

John 15.9 “9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”

2 cor 10.5 “5 and all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”

Rev 14.12 “12 Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.”

Rom 1.5 “5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,”

Heb 13.17 “17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.”

John 15.14 “14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.”

John 14.15 “15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”

2 john 1.6 “6 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.”

Joshua 5.6 “6 For forty years the Israelites traveled in the wilderness until all the nation, the warriors that left Egypt, perished, because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. To them Yahweh swore that they would not see the land that he swore to their ancestors to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Rom 2.6-8 “6 who will reward each one according to his works: 7 to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life, 8 but to those who act from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.”

Lk 11.28 “28 But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it!””

Col3.22 “22 Slaves, obey your human masters in everything, not while being watched, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.”

Rom 5.19 “19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.”

1 pet 1.14 “14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance,”

James 1.24 “24 for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.”