obedience the key to understanding

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 i have the impression that obedience seems to be the biggest factor to knowing the truth / Jesus.


John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine

John 14:21
Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

John 3:21
But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”

Psalm 111:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all all who follow his commands have good understanding. His praise endures forever."

Psalm 119:98-100 "Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts."

Deuteronomy 4:6"Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples..."

Psalm 119:104"Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way."

Proverbs 2:1-6"...if you store up my commands within you... then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom..."

Proverbs 9:10"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight."

Proverbs 1:7"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."

Job 28:28"And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’"

Proverbs 15:33"The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Matthew 7:24"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

James 3:13"Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom."

Proverbs 28:7"The one who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father."

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those who don't obey:

Jeremiah 8:9"The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?"

Proverbs 1:29-30"Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof..." (The following verses explain how this choice leads to their ruin).

Hosea 4:11"...whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding." (Here, sinful disobedience directly drains a person's ability to think clearly).

Ephesians 4:18"They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart."

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