Obedience

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.

and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see--to the age.'

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

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

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and--were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good except One--God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep; — read the full passage →

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk, — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →

`And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain <FI>it<Fi> , and bear fruit in continuance.

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,