16 Bible Verses about Obeying People
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Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.
Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;
Servants, obey your masters here below at every point; do not work simply when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, but serve them with a single heart out of reverence for your Lord and Master.
For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
For though I am a man under authority myself, I have soldiers under me; I tell one man to go, and he goes, I tell another to come, and he comes, I tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.
but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.
so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.
Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.
His own heart goes out to you all the more when he remembers how you all obeyed him, and how you received him with reverence and trembling.
So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.
The Lord said, "If you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic.
