28 Bible Verses about Men's Orders

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:

For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;

Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Keep your eyes on the field they are cutting, and go after them; have I not given orders to the young men not to put a hand on you? And when you are in need of drink go to the vessels and take of what the young men have put there.

Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.

Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.

Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.

And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

That same day Moses said to the people,

And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.

Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.

Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.

Let these be your orders and your teaching.

Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.

Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,