being obedient
What does the Bible say about being obedient? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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15If you love me, keep my commandments.
18Now someone may say: “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works! But I will show you my faith by means of works.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. 2Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: 3so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.
19For, just as through the disobedience of one man, many were established as sinners, so also through the obedience of one man, many shall be established as just.
17Obey your leaders and be subject to them. For they watch over you, as if to render an account of your souls. So then, may they do this with joy, and not with grief. Otherwise, it would not be as helpful to you.
5and height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,
22So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves.
24Do you see that a man is justified by means of works, and not by faith alone?
16“Go and gather together all the Jews whom you will find in Susa, and pray for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights, and I will fast with my handmaids similarly, and then I will go in to the king, doing what is against the law, not having been called, and so expose myself to mortal danger.”
28Then he said, “Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.”