30 Bible Verses about obeying

So, my dearly loved friends, as you have always been obedient, so now with reverence and awe keep on working clear down to the finishing point of your salvation not only as though I were with you but much more because I am away;

Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.

You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

But if you really observe the law of the King in accordance with the Scripture, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself," you are doing right;

We and the Holy Spirit that God has given to those who practice obedience to Him are witnesses to these things."

If we put bridles into horses' mouths to make them obey us, we can guide their whole bodies, too.

Whoever says, "I know Him," but does not practice obedience to His commands is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;

but whoever practices obedience to His message really has a perfect love of God in his heart. By this we can be sure that we are in union with Him:

By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

in a flame of fire, who will take vengeance on those who do not know God, that is, those who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus.

Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.