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Children Being Obedient
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Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases 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, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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.
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.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.
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.
Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
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.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, 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, “We must obey God rather than men.
One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
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;
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 being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: — read the full passage →
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;
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.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →
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.
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:
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.
We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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.
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
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.”
I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
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.
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.
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
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;
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.
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.
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?
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”
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.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
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.
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.
Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;
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