16 Bible Verses about Obeying People
Most Relevant Verses
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is wellpleasing to the Lord.
Servants, be subject to your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to an other, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
For I am a man placed under authority, and have soldiers under me; 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.
Does he thank that servant, because he did what was commanded? I think not.
He answered and said, I will not. But he afterward regretted it, and went.
Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, The first. Jesus said to them: Verily I say to you, The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
But he answered and said to his father, Behold, for so many years do I serve you, and never have I transgressed your commandment, and yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
therefore, all things that they command you to observe, observe and do. But do not according to their works: for they command, and do not.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
and his affection for you is the more abundant, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.
And they took the money, and did as they were taught. And their report of this matter is everywhere published among the Jews to this day.
And the Lord said: If you had faith like a grain of mustard, you might say to this sycamine-tree, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it should obey you.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: and you are her children, if you do good, and fear no dismay.
