35 Bible Verses about Obeying People

I [say], Keep the king's command, and that because of the oath of God.

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

Children, obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in Lord.

Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ.

Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this man, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and he comes, and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.

For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this man, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and he comes, and to my bondman, Do this, and he does.

Does he have a favor for that bondman because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

And having answered, he said, I do not want to, but having repented later, he went.

Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

But having answered, he said to his father, Lo, so many years do I serve thee, and I never passed by a commandment of thine, and yet thou never gave me a goat that I might be merry with my friends.

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And his sons did to him according as he commanded them.

So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

and said to them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of LORD commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to thee. Only LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou have commanded us we will do, and wherever thou send us we will go.

And she said to her, All that thou say I will do.

And she went down to the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.

Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people, as Mordecai had charged her. For Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, as when she was brought up with him.

So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them,

The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed. And to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment. But I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking

Inasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not hearkened to me,

And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you

And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

All things therefore, however many they may tell you to observe, observe and do, but do not ye according to their works, for they say, and do not.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was being subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And his bowels are more abundant toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how ye received him with fear and trembling.

And having taken the silver pieces, they did as they were instructed. And this saying was spread abroad among the Jews until this day.

And the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard plant, ye would say to this sycamine tree, Be thou uprooted and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became, doing good, and not being afraid of anything fearful.