Obedience

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

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

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

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.

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

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.

But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. — read the full passage →

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.

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?

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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:

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.

And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

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

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

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

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

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.

Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

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.

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;

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

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

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.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

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

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; — read the full passage →

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. — read the full passage →

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? — read the full passage →

I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

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:

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; — read the full passage →

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

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

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.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

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.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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. — read the full passage →

And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. — read the full passage →

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.

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 know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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: — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; — read the full passage →

Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.