1Samuel15:22-23

But Samuel replied: "Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams. For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king."

John14:15-21

If ye love me, keep my commandments. And i will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that ye may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth: whom the word cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him: for  he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: i will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more: but ye see me: because i live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that i am in my father, and ye in me and i in you. He that hath my commandments, and keepth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and i will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Obedience is keeping the commandments and honoring them, towards the Lord. We may all stray at times, through temptation, but God knows this and he expects us to sin and repent for it. But greater than that is not giving in to temptation and having no reason to repent, but continue on the righteous path.

Acts 5:29

Then Peter  and the others apostles answered and said we ought to obey God and not men.

It is of no profit in honoring this worldly life, because it is of no value in the end. Adhere to the word of God not by the teachings of this world.