24 Bible Verses about Obedience

And angels, who did not preserve their original rank but left their proper home, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, for the day of judgment,

who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

So He said to them, "Whenever you pray, say: 'Father, Your name be revered; Your kingdom come;

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place.

After the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a religious soldier who was one of his devoted attendants, and after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place.

But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

Then he awoke and tenderly took the child and His mother by night and made their escape to Egypt;

And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

And at once they left the nets and followed Him.

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.

So the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and got the Passover supper ready.

Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.

Continue urging slaves to practice perfect submission to their masters and to give them perfect satisfaction,

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.

Children, obey your parents, for this is right.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

Then He walked on a few steps and threw Himself upon His face, and in this attitude continued to pray, and say, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me; and yet, I pray, not what I want but what you want."

"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not my will but always yours be done!"

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

Was not our forefather Abraham shown to be upright by his good deeds, namely, by offering Isaac his son upon the altar?

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place.

Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had. Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped, but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men. read more.
Because He was recognized as a man, in reality as well as in outward form, He finally humiliated Himself in obedience so as to die, even to die on a cross.

He afterward said, "See, I have come to do your will." He is taking away the first to let the second take its place. It is by this will of God that we are consecrated through the offering of Jesus' body once for all. Every other priest stands officiating day after day and over and over again offering the same sacrifices, although they are unable to take away our sins. read more.
But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand, from that time waiting till His enemies should be made the footstool of His feet. For by that one sacrifice He has made perfect for all time those who are consecrated to Him.

For if by one man's offense death reigned through that one, to a much greater degree will those who continue to receive the overflow of His unmerited favor and His gift of right standing with Himself, reign in real life through One, Jesus Christ. So, as through one offense there resulted condemnation for all men, just so through one act of uprightness there resulted right standing involving life for all men. For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

So Christ too did not take upon Himself the glory of being appointed High Priest, but it was God who said: "You are my Son; I have today become your Father," as also in another passage He says: "You are a priest forever, belonging to the rank of Melchizedek." For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard. read more.
Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

Then He deposed him and raised up for them David to be king, to whom He bore this testimony, 'I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all that my will requires.'

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself. You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing. read more.
I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father. And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son. Yes, I repeat it, anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do it for you. "If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

Being circumcised or not being circumcised has no value, but keeping God's commands is important.

The young man said, "I have kept all these commandments; what more do I lack?"

You know the commandments: Do not murder. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud. Practice honoring your father and mother." But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

But he said, "I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

Paul fixed his eyes upon the council and said, "Brothers, with a clear conscience I have done my duty to God up to this very day."

I thank God, whom I worship, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as I ceaselessly remember you in my prayers. Because I remember the tears you shed for me, I am always longing night and day

"The kind of life I have lived from my youth up, as spent in my early days among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is well known to all Jews, for they have known all along from the first, if they would but testify to it, that I as a Pharisee have lived by the standard of the strictest sect of our religion.

By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith.

Yes, your obedience has been told to everybody; so I am delighted about you, but I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is bad.

Therefore, King Agrippa, I could not disobey that heavenly vision,

and the world is passing away and with it the evil longings it incites, but whoever perseveres in doing God's will lives on forever.

Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God. For just as the man who builds a house has greater glory than the house, by just so much is Jesus judged to be worthy of greater glory than Moses.

Now when they had completed everything that was in accordance with the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

As soon as he had this vision, we laid our plans to get off to Macedonia, because we confidently concluded that God had called us to tell them the good news.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."

So when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord directed him, and took her as his wife;

Then he awoke and tenderly took the child and His mother by night and made their escape to Egypt;

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

As He was walking along the shore of the sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets in the sea, for they were fishermen. So Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men." And at once they forsook their nets and followed Him.

He walked on a little farther and saw James, the Son of Zebedee, and his brother John; they too were in their boats getting their nets in order. He at once called them. They left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and went after Him.

If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

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

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.

Now there was in Jerusalem a man named Symeon, an upright, devout man; he was expecting to see the consolation of Israel, and he was under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Then Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. May what you say take place with me." Then the angel left her.

And as He was passing by, He saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting in the tax-collector's office, and He said to him, "Follow me." Then he got up and followed Him.

Now they were both upright in the sight of God, walking without reproach in all the Lord's commands and requirements.

And as He was passing along from there, He saw a man named Matthew in his seat at the tax-collector's desk, and He said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed Him.

but whoever practices obedience to His message really has a perfect love of God in his heart. By this we can be sure that we are in union with Him:

No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,

and we obtain from Him whatever we ask for, because we practice obedience to His commands and do what pleases Him.

And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask for anything that is in accordance with His will, He will listen to us.

You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,