"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

So, my dearly loved friends, as you have always been obedient, so now with reverence and awe keep on working clear down to the finishing point of your salvation not only as though I were with you but much more because I am away;

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey, and because He was perfectly qualified for it He became the author of endless salvation for all who obey Him,

Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"