30 Bible Verses about obeying

Therefore, my beloved, as you have been obedient always and not simply when I was present, so, now that I am absent, work all the more strenuously at your salvation with reverence and trembling,

Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him.

If you love me you will keep my commands,

Servants, be obedient to those who are your masters here below with reverence and trembling, with singleness of heart as to Christ himself;

To live by his commands, that is what love means: and the command is, live in love as you have learned to do from the very beginning.

You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth?

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;

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

(for love to God means keeping his commands). And his commands are not irksome,

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

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.

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

If you really fulfil the royal law laid down by scripture, You must love your neighbour as yourself, well and good;

To these facts we bear witness, with the holy Spirit which God has given to those who obey him."

We put bridles into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, and so, you see, we can move the whole of their bodies.

He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him;

but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him:

This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.

But he answered, "My mother and brothers are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

Children, obey your parents at every point, for this pleases the Lord right well.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.