35 Bible Verses about Obeying People

Keep [the] command of [the] king {because of your oath to God}.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another one, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does [it]."

For I also am a man placed under authority, who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another one, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does [it]."

He will not {be grateful} to the slave because he did what was ordered, [will he]?

And he answered [and] said, 'I do not want to!' But later [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 that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

But he answered [and] said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps {I will have children by her}." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them.

And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said.

and he said to them, "You have observed all that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I have commanded you;

Just as we obeyed Moses, so will we obey you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.

And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you will send us we will go.

And she said to her, "I will do all that you say."

And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her.

Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther {did what Mordecai told her}, just as when she was brought up by him.

And Mordecai went away and he did everything that Esther commanded him.

And the Jews adopted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them.

"The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor. But {I have spoken to you over and over again}, and you have not listened to me.

For the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have carried out the command of their ancestor that he commanded them, but this people did not listen to me."

But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your ancestor, and you have kept all his commands, and you have done all that he commanded you,'

And we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,

But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor, commanded us.

Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; {when they heard of me}, they became obedient to me.

as soon as {they heard}, they obeyed me. [The] children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.

Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as {they do}, for they tell [others to do something] and do not do [it themselves].

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart.

And his affection for you is all the more [when he] remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling.

So they took the money [and] did as they were told, and spread abroad this report among the Jews until this very day.

So the Lord said, "If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become [when you] do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.