and observe what the Lord your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go

And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”

May he turn our hearts to him, to walk in obedience to him and keep the commands, decrees and laws he gave our ancestors.

I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

If you do whatever I command you and walk in obedience to me and do what is right in my eyes by obeying my decrees and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you.

He forsook the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in obedience to him.

So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.

so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors.

In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered.

Psalm 128

A song of ascents.

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him.

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you.

“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.

Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.

Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.

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

Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from faith—

Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.

And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered