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.

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, 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.

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.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving 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 which 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 →

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 →

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.

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.