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Children Being Obedient
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Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in 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 said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening 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, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even 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 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.
If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
Be subject therefore unto God; but 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 may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
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.
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.
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 the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.
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.
Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and 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 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.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, 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 mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
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 being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
Honor 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.
through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
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.
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 know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →
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:
Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),
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.
And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, 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 his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
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.
Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which 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 unto him.
I made haste, and delayed not, To observe thy commandments.
God setteth the solitary in families: He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
If they hearken 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 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:
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.
and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
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;
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.
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.
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?
who will render to every man according to his works: — read the full passage →
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor 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 who 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; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →
The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
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.
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;
Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.
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.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
So then, my beloved, even 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 empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
A fool despiseth his father’s correction; But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.
Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;
the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;
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