12 Bible Verses about Obeying The Gospel

thus the word of God was spread; and the number of disciples encreased very much at Jerusalem; and a numerous body of priests embrac'd the faith.

your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.

for this was one view I had in writing, to have this trial of you, whether you are intirely obedient.

You set out well in your course: who hath obstructed your progress in the truth?

Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obey'd the gospel, not only when I was with you, but much more now while I am absent, continue the work of your own salvation, whatever persecutions you apprehend:

and we have this hope in the Lord, that you will still continue to observe the directions we give you.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

by whose favour I have received the office of an apostle to bring the Gentiles every where to the obedience of faith preached in his name:

and by the writings of the prophets (according to the commandment of the eternal God) made known to all the Gentiles, to induce them to obey the faith:

having this proof of you by such a supply, they will glorify God for your profess'd subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them as well as others;

but God be thanked, that you, who were the vassals of sin, have sincerely obeyed in the manner the gospel prescribed.

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice: