23 Bible Verses about Obedience

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

thy kingdom come; thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth;

And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

but [I have said this] that the world may know that I love the Father, and that as the Father has commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

And when the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of the house servants, and a pious soldier of those that attended constantly on him, and having related all things to them sent them to Joppa.

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

But Jesus answered and said to him, Suffer me now; for thus, it becomes us to complete all righteousness. Then he suffered him;

And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt,

And Jesus departing thence saw a man sitting at the custom-house, called Matthew; and he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

And they left their nets, immediately, and followed him.

Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

And the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them,

And the disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and prepared the passover;

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

Let servants be subject to their masters, please them in all things, not contradicting,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

Children, obey [your] parents in all things; for this is well pleasing in the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

And going forward a little, he fell on his face, and prayed and said, My Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from me; but not as I will, but as thou wilt.

saying, Father, if thou wilt, take this cup away from me; but not my will, but thine be done.

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do.

but [I have said this] that the world may know that I love the Father, and that as the Father has commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

If you keep my commandments you shall continue in my love, as I have kept my Father's commandments and continue in his love.

but [I have said this] that the world may know that I love the Father, and that as the Father has commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man, read more.
and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.

then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; read more.
but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God, henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life; for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee; as also in another place he says, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh having offered both prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, with loud cries and tears, [and being heard and delivered] from fear,??8 although he was a Son, learned obedience from what he suffered,

and removing him, he raised up for them David for a king, of whom also he said and testified, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak to you I speak not of myself, but the Father continuing in me, he does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe on account of the works themselves. read more.
I tell you most truly, he that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father; and whatever you ask in my name I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If you love me, keep my commandments;

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments.

The young man said to him, All these have I kept; what do I lack yet?

You know the commandments; You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not testify falsely, You shall not defraud, Honor your father and mother. And he answered and said to him, Teacher, all these have I kept from my youth.

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth.

And Paul looking steadily at the Sanhedrim, said, Men and brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience to this day.

I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

My mode of life from my childhood, the early part of it being with my nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews, who knew me from the first, if they would testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.

Whence, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

And the world passes away, and its desires; but he that does the will of God continues for ever.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our mansion with him.

And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and perform it.

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven.

who is faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was in his house. For this man is judged worthy of more glory than Moses, as much as he has more honor than the house [tabernacle] which he built.

And when they had finished all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their city Nazareth.

And when he saw the vision we immediately sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the good news to them.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took his wife,

And he arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and fled into Egypt,

Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

And passing along by the lake of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting [a net] into the lake, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men. And immediately leaving their nets they followed him.

And proceeding a little further on he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; and they were in the ship mending the nets; and he immediately called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired men, they went away after him.

If any one will do his will, he shall know of the teaching whether it is from God or whether I speak from myself.

And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gayest me out of the world; they were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, See an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.

But Jesus answered and said to him, Suffer me now; for thus, it becomes us to complete all righteousness. Then he suffered him;

a pious man, and one fearing God with all his house, and bestowing many charities on the people, and praying to God always,

And behold, there was a man at Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was just and pious, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

And Mary said, Behold, I am the servant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.

And passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me; and he arose and followed him.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

And Jesus departing thence saw a man sitting at the custom-house, called Matthew; and he said to him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.

and what we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

And this is the confidence which we have in respect to him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he hears us.

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,