24 Bible Verses about Obedience

And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day.

who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

let Thy kingdom come; let Thy will be done, as in Heaven so on earth;

So He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father may Thy name be kept holy; let Thy Kingdom come;

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.

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

For as through the disobedience of the one individual the mass of mankind were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the mass of mankind will be constituted righteous.

Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured;

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

So when the angel who had been speaking to him was gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a God-fearing soldier who was in constant attendance on him, and, after telling them everything, he sent them to Jaffa.

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.

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.

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

"Let it be so on this occasion," Jesus replied; "for so we ought to fulfil every religious duty." Then he consented;

So Joseph roused himself and took the babe and His mother by night and departed into Egypt.

Passing on thence Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the Toll Office, and said to him, "Follow me." And he arose, and followed Him.

So they immediately left their nets and followed Him. As He went further on,

"Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them:

The disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover ready.

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.

Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

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

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

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

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest."

"Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup away from me; yet not my will but Thine be done!"

I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

Was it, or was it not, because of his actions that he was declared to be righteous as the result of his having offered up his son Isaac upon the altar?

If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

For as through the disobedience of the one individual the mass of mankind were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the mass of mankind will be constituted righteous.

Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured;

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus. Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men. read more.
And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second. It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all. And while every priest stands ministering, day after day, and constantly offering the same sacrifices--though such can never rid us of our sins-- read more.
this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be put as a footstool under His feet. For by a single offering He has for ever completed the blessing for those whom He is setting free from sin.

For if, through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ. It follows then that just as the result of a single transgression is a condemnation which extends to the whole race, so also the result of a single decree of righteousness is a life-giving acquittal which extends to the whole race. For as through the disobedience of the one individual the mass of mankind were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the mass of mankind will be constituted righteous.

So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, "My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;" as also in another passage He says, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek." For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank. read more.
Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured;

After removing him, He raised up David to be their king, to whom He also bore witness when He said, "'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man I love, who will obey all My commands.'

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work. Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do. read more.
In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father. And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it. "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God's commandments is everything.

"All of these," said the young man, "I have carefully kept. What do I still lack?"

You know the Commandments--'Do not murder;' 'Do not commit adultery;' 'Do not steal;' 'Do not lie in giving evidence;' 'Do not defraud;' 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'" "Rabbi," he replied, "all these Commandments I have carefully obeyed from my youth."

"All of those," he replied, "I have kept from my youth."

Then Paul, fixing a steady gaze on the Sanhedrin, said, "Brethren, it is with a perfectly clear conscience that I have discharged my duties before God up to this day."

I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience--as my forefathers did--that night and day I unceasingly remember you in my prayers,

"The kind of life I have lived from my youth upwards, as exemplified in my early days among my nation and in Jerusalem, is known to all the Jews. For they all know me of old--if they would but testify to the fact--how, being an adherent of the strictest sect of our religion, my life was that of a Pharisee.

Through faith Noah, being divinely taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.

Your fidelity to the truth is everywhere known. I rejoice over you, therefore, but I wish you to be wise as to what is good, and simple-minded as to what is evil.

"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;

And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.

"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.

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

"Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house! For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

Then, as soon as they had accomplished all that the Law required, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.

So when he had seen the vision, we immediately looked out for an opportunity of passing on into Macedonia, confidently inferring that God had called us to proclaim the Good News to the people there.

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded, and brought home his wife,

So Joseph roused himself and took the babe and His mother by night and departed into Egypt.

"Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;

Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured;

One day, passing along the shore of the Lake of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, throwing their nets in the Lake; for they were fisherman. "Come and follow me," said Jesus, "and I will make you fishers for men." At once they left their nets and followed Him.

Going on a little further He saw James the son of Zabdi and his brother John: they also were in the boat mending the nets, and He immediately called them. They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with the hired men, and went and followed Him.

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

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

"I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me, and they have obeyed Thy message.

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

"Let it be so on this occasion," Jesus replied; "for so we ought to fulfil every religious duty." Then he consented;

He was religious and God-fearing--and so was every member of his household. He was also liberal in his charities to the people, and continually offered prayer to God.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem of the name of Symeon, an upright and God-fearing man, who was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

"I am the Lord's maidservant," Mary replied; "may it be with me in accordance with your words!" And then the angel left her.

And as He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the Toll Office, and said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed Him.

They were both of them upright before God, blamelessly obeying all the Lord's precepts and ordinances.

Passing on thence Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the Toll Office, and said to him, "Follow me." And he arose, and followed Him.

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.

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

and whatever we ask for we obtain from Him, because we obey His commands and do the things which are pleasing in His sight.

And we have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us.

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.