16 Bible Verses about Obeying People

Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.

Children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Slaves, always obey your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had but to please men, but giving them ungrudging service, in your reverence for the Master.

For I myself am a man under the orders of others, with soldiers under me; and, if I say to one of them 'Go,' he goes, and to another 'Come,' he comes, and to my slave 'Do this,' he does it."

For I myself am a man under the orders of others, with soldiers under me; and if I say to one of them 'Go,' he goes, and to another 'Come,' he comes, and to my slave 'Do this,' he does it."

Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?

'Yes, sir,' he answered; but he did not go.

Which of the two sons did as his father wished?" " The second," they said. "I tell you," added Jesus, "that tax-gatherers and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God before you.

'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.

Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.

However he went down with them to Nazareth, and submitted himself to their control; and his mother treasured all that was said in her heart.

And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care.

So the soldiers took the money, and did as they were instructed. And this story has been current among the Jews from that day to this.

But the Master said: "If your faith were only like a mustard- seed, you could say to this mulberry tree 'Be up-rooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you.