Obedience To God

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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

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;

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

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

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.

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.

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

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

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

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

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

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.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; — read the full passage →

Hownarrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

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.

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

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.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

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.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

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.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

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

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

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

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

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, — read the full passage →

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

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.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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.

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

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.”

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →