35 Bible Verses about Obeying People
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Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.
Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.
For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”
“He answered, ‘I don’t want to!’ Yet later he changed his mind and went.
“Which of the two did his father’s will?”
“The first,” they said.
Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!
But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
and told them, “You have done everything Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you and have obeyed me in everything I commanded you.
We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. And may the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses.
They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.
She went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her.
Esther still had not revealed her birthplace or her ethnic background, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.
So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.
“The words of Jonadab, son of Rechab, have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk to this very day because they have obeyed their ancestor’s command. But I have spoken to you time and time again, and you have not obeyed Me!
Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out their ancestor’s command he gave them, but these people have not obeyed Me.
Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your ancestor Jonadab and have kept all his commands and have done all that he commanded you,
We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab, son of our ancestor Rechab, in all he commanded us. So we haven’t drunk wine our whole life—we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters.
But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done as our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
Foreigners submit to me grudgingly;
as soon as they hear, they obey me.
Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practice what they teach.
Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.
And his affection toward you is even greater as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you received him with fear and trembling.
So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.
“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.
