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Bible Verses About Following God
Find Bible verses about following god — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about following god?
The Bible addresses following god with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
John 10:27
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
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Proverbs 23:26
“My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.”
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Job 34:27
“because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,”
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Joshua 22:29
“"Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"”
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1 Samuel 15:11
“"It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.”
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Joshua 3:3
“and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.”
Matthew 20:34
“Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.”
Matthew 4:25
“Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.”
2 Kings 17:21
“For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.”
1 Chronicles 17:7
“"Now therefore, you shall tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.”
Zephaniah 1:6
“those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.”
Isaiah 59:13
“transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”
1 Kings 21:26
“He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.”
Luke 22:54
“They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.”
John 13:36
“Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."”
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