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.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

“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.”

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

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.

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.

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;

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.’

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.”

For he joined with Yahweh; he didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

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

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

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.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

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.

So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.

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

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

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

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

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

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.

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

You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

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.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else. — read the full passage →

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 →

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

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

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

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.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

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.

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.

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. — read the full passage →

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.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts. — read the full passage →

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.

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. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

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 →

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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.

and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

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.