16 Bible Verses about Obeying People

Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.

children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ:

servants, be entirely obedient to those, whom the laws have made your masters, and not meerly out of regard to their observation, as designing only to please men, but from a principle of integrity, as fearing God:

for I am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command: I bid this man, go, and he's gone: another, come, and he's here: and to my servant, do this, and it is done.

for though I am subject to authority, I have soldiers under me: I bid one go, and he goes: I bid another come, and he comes: I bid my servant do this, and he does it."

will he think himself oblig'd to that servant for doing what he was order'd? I believe not.

I won't, said he: but afterward be chang'd his mind, and went.

which of the two obey'd his father? they said, the first. Jesus reply'd, I declare to you, that the publicans and licentious people enter into the gospel kingdom before you.

how many years have I serv'd you, without having ever disobey'd your orders? and yet you never bestow'd a kid upon me, to make merry with my friends:

therefore whatever moral precepts they bid you observe, those observe and practise; but don't follow their example: for they preach one thing, and practise another.

However Jesus went down with them to Nazareth, and was subject to them: and his mother kept all these things in her heart.

and his affection to you is abundantly increased, whilst he remembers your obedience, and that fear and reverence with which you all received him.

so they took the money, and did as they were directed: and this report is still current among the Jews at this day.

if your faith improv'd like a grain of mustard-seed, you might say to this sycamine-tree, be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue.