Being Obedient

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

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

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

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

Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

who will render to every man according to his works: — read the full passage →

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. — read the full passage →

And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name. — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.