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Children Being Obedient
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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) — read the full passage →
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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 to him.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Who will render to every man according to his deeds: — read the full passage →
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
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 which is in heaven.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. — read the full passage →
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
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