Obeying

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

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?

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;

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

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.

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 →

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.

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. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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

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

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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.

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

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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

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.

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.

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” — read the full passage →

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.

He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?” — read the full passage →

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.

No servant 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. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!” — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

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

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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.

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. — read the full passage →

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. — read the full passage →

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;

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.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. — read the full passage →

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.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? — read the full passage →

He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →

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.”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

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.’

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.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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.

You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.”

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

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 →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes out of the field year by year. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →