35 Bible Verses about Obeying People

I say, “Keep the command of the king because of the oath before God.

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

Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord.

Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

Slaves, in all things obey those who are your masters on earth, not with external service, as those who merely please men, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?

And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They *said, “The first.” Jesus *said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you as He was with Moses.

They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

She said to her, “All that you say I will do.”

So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

Esther had not yet made known her kindred or her people, even as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her as she had done when under his care.

So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.’”’

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father, kept all his commands and done according to all that he commanded you;

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,

We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

“Foreigners pretend obedience to me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.

As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners submit to me.

therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.

And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.

And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.