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Children Being Obedient

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Colossians 3:20

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

Ephesians 6:1–4

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

Ephesians 6:1

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

Matthew 15:4

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

Hebrews 13:4

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

Romans 5:19

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.

John 14:15

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

1 Peter 1:14

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

1 John 2:5

but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

James 4:7

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

Luke 11:28

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

1 John 2:1–29

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 →

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

John 14:23

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.

2 John 1:6

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.

1 John 2:15

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.

1 Corinthians 14:34

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.

Hebrews 13:17

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.

Colossians 3:21

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Luke 2:51

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.

1 John 1:9

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

James 1:22

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

Ephesians 6:1–3

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

Acts 5:29

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

Revelation 1:1

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;

Philippians 2:8

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

Ephesians 6:2–3

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

Romans 1:5

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

1 John 5:3

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

1 John 2:15–17

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 →

1 John 2:3–6

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

Colossians 3:22

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:

Ephesians 6:2

Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise),

Romans 12:2

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.

Acts 5:32

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

1 John 1:7

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.

2 Timothy 3:17

that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

Romans 12:1

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.

John 15:14

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

John 14:21

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.

James 1:25

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.

Hebrews 5:9

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

Titus 2:3–5

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 →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

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

Ephesians 6:5

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;

2 Corinthians 10:5

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;

1 Corinthians 15:58

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.

Romans 13:1

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.

Romans 6:16

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?

Romans 2:6–8

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

John 14:6

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

Mark 10:19

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.

Matthew 7:21

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.

1 Peter 1:2

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.

Hebrews 12:2

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.

Hebrews 5:8

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

Philemon 1:21

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

Romans 8:28

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.

Romans 8:14

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

Matthew 23:23

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.

Matthew 19:19

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Matthew 5:17

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

Philippians 2:12

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;

Ephesians 6:3

that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Ephesians 5:6

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

John 16:21

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.

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