16 Bible Verses about Obeying People
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Children, as Christians obey your parents, for that is right.
Children, always obey your parents, for that is commendable in Christians.
You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,
You who are slaves must always obey your earthly masters, not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but with sincerity of heart, because you fear the Lord.
For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."
For I am myself under the orders of others, and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."
Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.
And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends.
So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act.
And he went back with them to Nazareth and obeyed them. And his mother treasured all these things up in her mind.
His heart goes out all the more to you, as he recalls how you all obeyed him, and with what reverence and trembling you received him.
So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.
And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!
like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham, and called him Master. You are true daughters of hers, if you do right and are unafraid.
