Obedience

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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;

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

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

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

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

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.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto 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.

And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that 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 powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

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

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.

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

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

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

If ye know these things, blessed 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 one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve 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 them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

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

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

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: 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.

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.

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

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

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;

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

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

And he said unto him, Why askest thou me concerning that which is good? One there is who is good: but if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; — read the full passage →

And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

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