Being Obedient

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

`Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that <FI>is<Fi> not according to law, and when I have perished--I have perished.'

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me--honour him will the Father.

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as <FI>in<Fi> hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

`And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth <FI>is<Fi> Mine;

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep; — read the full passage →

and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

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

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

If they do hear and serve, They complete their days in good, And their years in pleasantness.

for forty years have the sons of Israel gone in the wilderness, till all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah hath sworn not to show them the land which Jehovah sware to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;

`See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling: — read the full passage →

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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

He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect; — read the full passage →

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

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience, — read the full passage →

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →

`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;