15 Bible Verses about Obeying People
Most Relevant Verses
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.
Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.
for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers; 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."
for I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself; 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."
Which of the two did the will of the father?" They say, "The last." Jesus saith to them, "Verily I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots are going into the Kingdom of God before you.
But he, answering, said to his father, 'Behold, so many years do I serve you; and, at no time, did I transgress a command of yours; and you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not.
And his tender affections are more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
And they, taking the silver, did as they were instructed. And this account was spread abroad among the Jews, until this day.
And the Lord said, "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom ye became children; if ye do good, and fear no alarm.
