Exodus 19:5 (NIV) Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine.
Leviticus 20:8 (NIV) Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
John 14:15 (NIV) If you love me, you will obey what I command.
If God be God over us, we must yield him universal obedience in all things. He must not be over us in one thing, and under us in another, but he must be over us in everything.—Peter Bulkeley
Leadership, Vol. 9, no. 1., Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "OBEDIENCE".
