24 Bible Verses about Obedience

while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

thy Reign begin, thy will be done on earth as in heaven!

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue, and after describing all the vision to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

So he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went off to Egypt,

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

And they dropped their nets at once and followed him.

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

So the disciples went and did as Jesus told them;

So the disciples did as Jesus had told them, and prepared the passover.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;

Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right;

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;

his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?

If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus. Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise read more.
and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body. Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God, read more.
to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.

For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all. Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father. Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek. In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear. read more.
Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds. Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: ??or else, believe because of the deeds themselves. read more.
Truly, truly I tell you, he who believes in me will do the very deeds I do, and still greater deeds than these. For I am going to the Father, and I will do whatever you ask in my name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; I will do whatever you ask me in my name. If you love me you will keep my commands,

Circumcision counts for nothing, uncircumcision counts for nothing; obedience to God's commands is everything.

The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"

You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother." "Teacher," he said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."

He said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."

With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

I render thanks to God, the God of my fathers whom I worship with a pure conscience, as I mention you constantly in my prayers.

How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews. They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith.

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

Upon this, O king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision;

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house, Jesus has been adjudged greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the founder of a house enjoys greater honour than the house itself.

When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.

As soon as he saw the vision, we made efforts to start for Macedonia, inferring that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

So on waking from sleep Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him; he took his wife home,

So he got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went off to Egypt,

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,

Now as he passed along the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Simon's brother Andrew netting fish in the sea ??for they were fishermen; so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men." At once they dropped their nets and went after him.

Then going on a little further he saw James the son of Zebedaeus and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets; he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men.

I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

a religious man, who reverenced God with all his household, who was liberal in his alms to the People, and who constantly prayed to God.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

Mary said, "I am here to serve the Lord. Let it be as you have said." Then the angel went away.

As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.

and we get from him whatever we ask, because we obey his commands and do what is pleasing in his sight.

Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;