35 Bible Verses about Obeying People
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Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant,'Do this,' and he does it."
For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
And he answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind and went.
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.
and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.
Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!
And they answered Joshua, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.
Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.
So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.
The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.
The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.
But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you,
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,
but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
so practice and observe whatever they tell you--but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.
So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.
And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
