Obedience

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

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.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

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

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.

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?

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.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

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.

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.

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.”

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;

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

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

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.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

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

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.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? — read the full passage →

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

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

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.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law 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.

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

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good?No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to 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 →

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. — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.