16 Bible Verses about Obeying People
Most Relevant Verses
CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things; for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;
Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.
For I also am a man under authority, having under my command soldiers and I say to this soldier, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
For I also am a man under authority, and have under my command soldiers; and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come hither, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Doth he hold it as a favour from that servant, that he did the things which were ordered him? I think not.
Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say unto you, That tax-gatherers and harlots shall go before you into the kingdom of God.
But he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years I am serving thee, and never have transgressed thy command: yet to me thou hast never once given a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
all things therefore which they prescribe for you to observe, observe and practise; but do not according to their works, for they say, yet do not practise.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was in subjection to them: though his mother preserved all these sayings in her heart.
And his bowels more abundantly yearn over you, when he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
So they took the money, and did as they were instructed. And this account is circulated among the Jews to this day.
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye might say to that sycamore-tree, Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are, if ye do well, and are not affrighted with any terror.
