30 Bible Verses about obeying

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the Truth?

Obey your Leaders, and submit to their control, for they are watching over your souls, as men who will have to render an account, so that they may do it with joy, and not in sorrow. That would not be to your advantage.

Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

Children, obey your parents, as children of the Lord; for that is but right.

For to love God is to lay his commands to heart; and his commands are not burdensome,

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you--Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?

as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you.

To this Peter and the Apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men.

Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right;

And we are witness to the truth of this, and so is the Holy Spirit--the gift of God to those who obey him."

When we put bits into horses' mouths, to make them obey us, we control the rest of their bodies so.

The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

but, whenever a man lays his Message to heart, in that man the love of God has indeed reached its perfection. By this we know that we are in union with God--

And by this we know that we have learned to know him--by our laying his commands to heart.

His reply, spoken to them all, was: "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it bids."

Children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord.

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.

He appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death--to death on a cross!