30 Bible Verses about obeying

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Slaves, be obedient to your earthly masters, with respect and eager anxiety to please and with simplicity of motive as if you were obeying Christ.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

You were running the race nobly! Who has interfered and caused you to swerve from the truth?

Obey your leaders and be submissive to them. For they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give account; that they may do this with joy and not with lamentation. For that would be of no advantage to you.

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.

Love for God means obedience to His commands; and His commands are not irksome.

Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result)

"Nay rather," He replied, "they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it."

Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?"

Thus, for instance, Sarah obeyed Abraham, acknowledging his authority over her. And you have become Sarah's children if you do what is right and permit nothing whatever to terrify you.

Peter and the other Apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than man.

If, however, you are keeping the Law as supreme, in obedience to the Commandment which says "You are to love your fellow man just as you love yourself," you are acting rightly.

And we--and the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him--are witnesses as to these things."

Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.

He who professes to know Him, and yet does not obey His commands, is a liar, and the truth has no place in his heart.

But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.

And by this we may know that we know Him--if we obey His commands.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

Children be obedient to your parents in everything; for that is right for Christians.

All who are depending upon their own obedience to the Law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed is every one who does not remain faithful to all the precepts of the Law, and practise them."

He will come in flames of fire to take vengeance on those who have no knowledge of God, and do not obey the Good News as to Jesus, our Lord.

And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.