Being Obedient

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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

throwing 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;

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

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

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you 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 have put on Christ.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for 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, “We must obey God rather than men.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

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

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has 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.

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

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

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

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

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

If they listen 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, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to 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, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter. — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who 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 pleases the Lord.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through 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 whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.